{"id":44941,"date":"2022-04-06T23:23:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=44941"},"modified":"2022-04-06T23:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:23:54","slug":"three-month-jail-aed5000-fine-for-beggars-public-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/04\/06\/three-month-jail-aed5000-fine-for-beggars-public-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-month jail, AED5,000 fine for beggars: Public Prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Public Prosecution (PP) today said that beggars shall be sentenced to detention for a term up to three months and a fine of not less than AED5,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The penalty- according to Article 475 of Federal Decree Law No 31 of 2021 concerning crimes and penalties law- shall be handed down on &#8220;whoever is caught begging to obtain a physical or in-kind benefit by any form or means,&#8221; PP tweeted today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The begging offence shall be considered an aggravating circumstance if the beggar is healthy and has an apparent source of living; if he\/she pretends to be injured or have a permanent disability\u00ad; pretends to do a service for third party; or uses any means of de\u00adception in order to influence others and appeal to their affection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Prosecution (PP) today said that beggars shall be sentenced to detention for a term up to three months and a fine of not less than AED5,000. The penalty- according to Article 475 of Federal Decree Law No 31 of 2021 concerning crimes and penalties law- shall be handed down on &#8220;whoever is caught &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44942,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44941\/revisions\/44942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}