Al criminal liability in the pranks television (A Comparative study)

Abstract

قانوناًTelevision is one of the important media, which actively contributes to crystallizing the culture of society and forming its intellectual vision. This media outlet takes its international basis from international declarations and charters, and on the domestic scale, it is based on national constitutions and legislation that regulates the work of the media and sets limits for the exercise of its freedoms. There are many programs shown on television screens.  Among these programs that have appeared recently are TV pranks programs. The idea of   these programs is to host a famous person within the community and put him in a fabricated position by holding him and making him hear a phrase that affects his human dignity or provoke terror and fear in him to show strange reactions from him in order to increase the followers of this TV channel  These pranks are, in fact, inconsistent with ethical standards of behavior and the limits of media freedom in television work, and conflict with international texts, constitutions and national legislation regulating media work, in addition to the fact that these actions are crimes punishable by criminal laws, including the Iraqi Penal Code of 1969. These crimes are the crime of using explosives  Or explosives and the crime of detention of persons and offenses of defamation and insult