Muscat: Oman’s Public Prosecution considers the use of the social media as an effective tool for the incitement of illegal assembly as well as disturbing the public order.
Ebrahim Al Habsi, a chief public prosecutor in Muscat, said that social media means were the effective tool that used in all the wrong gatherings crimes that Public Prosecution dealt with recently. Al Habsi, told Shabiba daily newspaper that Public Prosecution deals with marches that disrupt traffic and violate public order as illegal gatherings.
That came on the sideline of the opening of the workshop held in Muscat organised by the Public Prosecution in cooperation with the British Embassy in Muscat entitled “Dealing with crimes against public order”.
Al Habsi explained that cases violate the public order pose a threat and should be handled with extreme caution. Meanwhile, many believe that social media means have unprecedented boldness in revealing corruption cases in the country as well as effective tool for disseminating news nationwide. Rashad Al Hamdani, an Omani blogger, told Gulf News that many use social media to circulate news among them in the current time.
