UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION PROVIDED BY SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS
18 SEPTEMBER 2014
2. Take the necessary steps to block Internet links when so is ordered by the judicial
authorities;
3. Keep user information for a year;
4. Keep on a temporary and urgent basis information technology data, traffic data and
content information for a period of 90 days renewable upon a request by the competent
body or the investigation and litigation authorities;
5. Cooperate with and help the competent authority with collecting and recording the
electronic data or information and traffic data if so is ordered by judicial authorities.
Article (22)
The State bodies, authorities and corporations shall:
1. Adopt the necessary preventive measures to protect its information systems, websites,
information networks and electronic data and information;
2. Promptly report to the competent authority any crime mentioned in this Law or any
unlawful attempts regarding any capturing, intercepting or spying and provide the
competent authority with any information necessary to uncover the truth.
3. Keep information technology data and user data for a period of not less than 120 days
and provide the competent authority with such data; and
4. Cooperate with the competent authority to enable it to carry out its responsibilities.
Section (4)
International Cooperation
Chapter (1)
General Rules
Article (23)
The competent authority shall help the similar bodies of the other countries regarding mutual
legal assistance and extradition of criminals in connection with the criminal procedures of the
crimes mentioned in this Law, according to the Criminal Procedures Code, the bilateral or
multilateral agreements concluded with the State and the principle of reciprocity without
violating the provisions of this Law or any other law.
A legal assistance or extradition request shall not be met under this law unless the laws of the
requesting country and the laws of the State deem such crime publishable or impose a
punishment for a similar crime. Dual criminality shall be deemed fulfilled irrespective of whether
the laws of the requesting country place the crime within the same category of crime or
denominate the crime by the same terminology as the State, provided that the conduct
underlying the crime is deemed a crime under the laws of the requesting country.
Article (24)