Baréin / Casos nacionales
Counterfeit and obscene films prosecution
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Counterfeit and obscene films prosecution
- Cita
- Court of Cassation, Criminal Appeal 294/2008, rule 13
- Tribunal
- Court of Cassation, Criminal Circuit
- Instancia
- court_of_cassation
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2009-02-09
- Estado
- final_cassation_rejected
- Resultado
- Cassation rejected; conviction and sanctions stood.
- Resumen
- The offenses required general criminal intent, established by confession that he copied and sold the material; ignorance of law or language did not excuse him and deportation was lawful.
- Antecedentes
- A shop worker was charged in case 07/2007/2130/9 with printing, possessing and offering obscene counterfeit films and infringing copyright. Trial imposed two months' imprisonment, BHD 500 and permanent deportation. Appeal 513/2007 affirmed; earlier cassation 32/J/2007 quashed on 2008-03-17; remand on 2008-11-11 reinstated the result.
- Historia procesal
- A shop worker was charged in case 07/2007/2130/9 with printing, possessing and offering obscene counterfeit films and infringing copyright. Trial imposed two months' imprisonment, BHD 500 and permanent deportation. Appeal 513/2007 affirmed; earlier cassation 32/J/2007 quashed on 2008-03-17; remand on 2008-11-11 reinstated the result.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether intent was insufficient because the defendant claimed ignorance of Bahrain law and language.
- Criterio
- The offenses required general criminal intent, established by confession that he copied and sold the material; ignorance of law or language did not excuse him and deportation was lawful.
- Fundamento decisivo
- For these special-law offenses, knowing the physical copying and sale can establish general intent without knowledge of the precise statutory prohibition.
- Límites
- Infringement prosecution only; it does not decide authorship or copyright subsistence in AI output.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- binding_or_highly_authoritative_national_cassation_on_criminal_intent Integración/votación: Khalifa bin Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa; Masaad Ramadan Al-Saai; Mohsen Mohamed Fadli; Mohieddin Al-Sayed Hassan panel disposition; no dissent recorded
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Counterfeit and obscene films prosecution
- Enlace
- Consultar fuente
- Autoridad
- Court of Cassation, Criminal Circuit
- Tipo
- doctrina-general
- Tipo de evidencia
- complete_primary_judicial_file
- Localizador
- official text, rule 13; lines 46-59, 68-120
- Verificación documentada
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