Actions curbing someone’s freedom in UAE could land a person a maximum penalty of life-long imprisonment.
Article No. 395 of Federal Decree-Law No. 31 of 2021 Promulgating Penal Code (Law of Crimes and Penalties), whoever kidnaps, arrests, detains, or deprives a person of his freedom shall be sentenced to temporary imprisonment.
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The UAE Public Prosecution (PP) highlights that the penalty of life imprisonment will apply in the following instances:
– For impersonating, pretending the performance or assignment of a public service or to contact under a false representation
– An act performed by use of subterfuge or accompanied by the use of force, threat of killing, or inflicting severe bodily harm.
– An act performed by two or more armed persons if the period of kidnapping, arresting, detaining, or depriving of freedom exceeds one month,
– If the victim is a female, a juvenile, an insane, feeble-minded, or a person with a disability
– Also for drawing profit, revenge, rape of the victim, an act committed against a public servant during discharge of his duties
