The Extent To Which The Personal Right Prosecution Is Required To Initiate A Public Right Lawsuit In Electronic Slander Crimes

Abstract

The study aimed to clarify one of the most critical procedural problems facing cybercrimes of slander, which is the extent to which the prosecution of a personal right is required or not to trigger the public's lawsuit, as the Jordanian legislator necessitated the availability of this condition in the traditional slander crimes stipulated in the Penal Code only for the general public. And this was not required in electronic slander crimes, which confirms the necessity of applying general rules in the absence of a special text. Some of them require the necessity of claiming a personal right, and others do not require that, contenting themselves with the freedom of the Public Prosecution to initiate the case directly.