Prison in Iraq for youtuber and a tiktokera for ‘indecent’ content

An Iraqi court imposed prison sentences on a YouTuber and a tiktoker for content considered “indecent” and that violate modesty and public customs,” a statement from the judicial authorities announced on Wednesday.

The Ministry of the Interior announced in January the launch of a committee tasked with identifying “decadent content” on social media that “go against the customs and traditions” of Iraqi society, still largely conservative and patriarchal.

I also know created a platform for Internet users to report such posts.

He Youtuber Hasan Sajamah was sentenced to two years in prison and Om Fahad, a tiktokera with more than 23,000 subscribers, will have to serve six months in jailannounced Wednesday the Supreme Council of the Magistracy.

In both cases they were sentenced for “the publication of several videos –with indecent words and that violated modesty and public customs– and their public dissemination on social networks”.

In his videos, Hasan Sajamah sometimes stops young women or men on the street to ask them questions about their love life, ask them if they received gifts from their lover, or question them about their criteria for their ideal partner.

Om Fahad, for his part, posted videos in which he often appears in tight suits and dances to Iraqi music.

Invited Tuesday on the set of Iraqi television Al Rachid, the spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior, Saad Maan, said that to date eight people have been arrested for “decadent” content. (YO)