In Iraq, YouTuber and TikToker are arrested for 'indecent' content

An Iraqi court imposed prison sentences on a YouTuber and a TikToker for content considered "indecent and violating public modesty and customs", according to judicial authorities.

O Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced, in January, the launch of a committee tasked with identifying “decadent content” on social media, which “go against customs and traditions” by sIraqi society, quite conservative and patriarchal.

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The Superior Council of the Judiciary announced this Wednesday (8) the sentence of two years in prison for the YouTuber Hasan Sajamah.

Yes, Om Fahad, TikToker with more than 23 thousand followers, he must serve six months in prison.

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Both were convicted of “publication of several videos – with indecent words that violated public modesty and customs – and their public dissemination on social networks”.

In your videos, Hasan Sajamah often stops young women or men on the street to ask questions about their love life, whether they have received gifts from lovers or questionTell them about your criteria for an ideal partner.

Om Fahad, in turn, posted videos in which he usually appears in tight clothes and dances to Iraqi music.

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Invited on Tuesday (07) to the Iraqi television studio Al Rachid, the Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan said that, to date, eight people have been arrested for “decadent".

(With AFP)

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