Hassan Sajamah and 'Om Fahad', an Iraqi youtuber and tiktoker, have been sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison, respectively, for the content they posted on their social networks. The country's court considers that his publications are "indecent" and that they go "against customs and traditions", according to what the judicial authorities have reported.
The Ministry of the Interior announced in January the creation of an ethics committee to search for and judge all content considered "decadent" on social networks and that go against the conservative values of society. A platform was also set up so that users themselves could denounce this type of publication where some 50,000 reports have been collected, according to the spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior, Saad Maan, on Iraqi Al-Rachid television.
The verdicts were announced by a Baghdad criminal court. Both cases have been condemned for "the publication of several videos with indecent comments and that violate good customs and morals and their dissemination to the public on social networks."
Hassan Sajamah, the youtuber sentenced to 2 years in prison, published videos where he asked young women and men on the street about their love life, the relationships they had with their partners or to ask what their perfect partner would be like.
On the other hand, 'Om Fahad', sentenced to 6 months in prison, is a tiktoker followed by more than 23,000 users. The young man posts videos on the musical social network in which he often appears wearing tight clothes and dancing to music from his country.
Saad Maan, noted in the Al-Rachid interview that the two young men were not a special case. According to the spokesperson, "8 people had already been arrested for decadent content" and invited all those authors with similar publications to "delete" their publications as proof of "their good faith."
