Iraq Takes Steps Toward Revoking Cybercrime Act

BY JILLIAN C. YORK AND MAIRA SUTTON
EFF.org
Feb. 07, 2013

Following the events of the 'Arab Spring,' numerous countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa have begun assessing—or reassessing—their regulation of the Internet. Last April, we criticized Iraq's attempt at legislation: a heavy-handed bill that, if passed, would impose life imprisonment for vaguely-worded "crimes" such as promoting "ideas which are disruptive to public order" and lesser sentences for a range of other offenses.

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