An awareness seminar on the criminal protection of documents and passports in the UAE law
Thursday, Dec 05, 2024
The College of Law held a seminar on the criminal protection of documents and passports in the UAE law at 3:00 pm on Thursday, 5-12-2024, in which Professor Dr. Khalaf Muhammad spoke about the importance of written documents in proving rights and the care of Islamic law and its call to document transactions. In application of the Almighty’s saying {O you
who believe! When you contract a debt for a specified term, write it down…} and obligated its protection from tampering with it or changing its content, Dr. Amin Dahmash then spoke about the importance of residence documents and passports, and pointed out the seriousness of committing these crimes and the necessity of providing protection for the trust that arises from dealing with these documents, and the role of the UAE legislator in determining the punishment for many crimes related to them. The legislator decided to punish with imprisonment for a period not exceeding fifteen years in addition to a fine of not less than fifty thousand dirhams for forgers of passports and travel, residence and nationality documents, and for anyone who used these documents knowing that they were forged, or impersonated or replaced a person in order to obtain them, or submitted forged documents with the intention of obtaining a passport or residence and nationality documents. He also criminalized anyone who found a passport and did not hand it over. To the competent authorities. It is worth noting that the state has the latest devices to detect forgery of residence documents, nationality and passports, and has competent specialists who have the experience and capabilities to uncover these criminal acts. This event was attended by many interested in this field, and university students, who expressed their questions and comments that enriched this important topic