or violate the public ethics or promoting programs or concepts or activities liable to
cause the same.
Article (18)
The penalty with imprisonment for a period not less than one month and not
exceeding three years and a fine not less than OMR one thousand and not exceeding
OMR three thousands or by either penalty, shall be applied to any person who uses
the informational network or the information technology facilities to threaten or
extort a person to do or abstain from doing any act even if the doing or not doing of
such an act is legal. The punishment shall be temporary imprisonment for a period
not less than three years and not exceeding ten years and the fine of not less than
OMR three thousands and not exceeding OMR ten thousands the threat is to
commit an offence or by attributing indecent acts affecting honour and superiority.
Article (19)
The penalty with imprisonment for a period not less than one month and not
exceeding three years and a fine not less than OMR one thousand and not exceeding
OMR three thousands or by either penalty, shall be applied to any person who uses
the informational network or the information technology facilities to produce or
publish or distribute or purchase or possess whatsoever that might prejudice the
public order or religious values.
Article (20)
The penalty with life imprisonment and a fine not less than OMR one hundred
thousand and not exceeding two hundred thousand shall be applied to any person
who establishes an electronic terrorism site on the internet or uses the
informational network or the information technology facilities for terrorist purposes
or for the dissemination of and calling for the concepts and the principles of terrorist
organization or the financing of the terrorist operations and training or to facilitate
the communications between the different terrorism organizations or between their
members and leaders or for the dissemination of the methods of manufacturing
explosives, weapons and other tools that could be used specifically in terrorist
operations.
Article (21)
The penalty with temporary imprisonment for a period not less than three years and
not exceeding fifteen years and a fine not less than OMR fifty thousands and not
exceeding the amount equivalent to the value of the funds forming the subjectmatter of the crime if it is more than the above indicated amount, shall be applied to
any person who uses the informational network or information technology facilities
to transfer the illegal money or transport or conceal or camouflage its source or to
acquire or possess properties while aware of its illegal source or to request
assistance in a money laundering operation or to publish the methods of how to
execute the same.
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