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Ministry of Justice organises a workshop on Cyber Crime
02 June 2010
The UAE was one of the world's first countries that stressed the importance of establishing specialised judicial courts for cyber crimes, Dr. Hadef Al Dhahiri, Minister of Justice, affirmed today.
''The modern age is witnessing accelerating developments in the knowledge and telecommunication revolution, creating some trans-international crimes,'' the minister said on the sidelines of a two-day workshop on the cyber crime'' which was organised by Ministry of Justice in Abu Dhabi.
He added the UAE leading position in applications of telecommunications and computer networks and its advanced ranking worldwide in internet penetration had made it necessary for members of the judiciary to be fully aware of the international law and legislations which incriminate the harmful use of this technology against societies and individuals.
The workshop was attended by members of the judiciary in the UAE and a group of experts from the US and EU.
Participants presented papers on challenges of evidence of e-crime, investigation on cyber crimes, police's mechanisms in monitoring, tracing, detecting and preventing these crimes.