CRIMINAL CONFRONTATION OF CRIMES OF WITCHCRAFT AND SORCERY IN THE UAE PENAL CODE

Abstract

Whereas courts in the United Arab Emirates apply the provisions of Islamic law to the cases before them, in accordance with what the legislator stipulated that the application of Islamic Sharia provisions applies in the matter of” hudud" crimes, retribution and blood money, and determines the crimes and punishments of discretion in accordance with what is indicated by the book and the Sunnah and what the head of state issues Regulations that do not conflict with the Qur’an and Sunnah.

 So the United Arab Emirates tended to make the Book of God and the Sunnah of His Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, a constitution for it, and it came to us to divide the crimes according to the severity of the punishment prescribed for them in Islamic Sharia, which is divided into three sections: "hudud" crimes, retribution, blood money and discretionary crimes.

The crimes of witchcraft and sorcery came in implementation of that and the UAE legislator stipulated in the amended law of 2016, specifically in Article 316, regarding these crimes and considered them to be crimes that affect religion and belief.