Khaberni - Residents of the southern town of Al-Sultani raised questions about the electricity distribution company's actions of cutting off electricity to the town and flying drones in its skies to detect unauthorized use by some in Al-Sultani.
The following questions have reached Khaberni's mail:
What happened last night at Al-Sultani dam by the electric company is a legal transgression and a violation of citizens' privacy.
Electricity was cut off for 3 hours accompanied by the flying of drones taking photos which caused panic among the citizens, who left their homes thinking that there was a serious security event requiring all this tumult and darkness, only to discover later that these measures were from the electricity distribution company to control violators.
This behavior raises several questions directed to the experts:
Is the electricity distribution company above the law so that it can act like this without any permits?
And has the electric company been authorized to impose its own laws, violate people's privacy, and scare them?
Also, who gave the electric company the right to film in this way and violate the privacy of citizens?
And who gave the right to cut off electricity from complying homes where there are children and sick people on oxygen devices in their homes, endangering their lives?
Will there be legal action from the competent authorities for this blatant legal violation?
Have the companies become entities with independent authority not subject to the law?
#Important Note
If filming by the drone violates the privacy of others (i.e., documenting or filming them in contexts they do not consent to), the public prosecutor or the victim may, based on Article 348 repeated, bring a criminal charge for privacy violation even if there is no separate article explicitly dedicated to drones.
