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Cybercrime Law, Ban on Real, Virtual, and Simulated Depictions of a Minor

Law No. 17 of 2023 on Cybercrime, Art. 13

In force.

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Prohibition
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • Do not send, publish, produce, store, process, display, print, buy, sell, transmit, or promote a sexually stimulating image, recording, or drawing of a real, virtual, or simulated sexual act of a person under eighteen years of age, and do not possess such content.
  • This ban reaches a synthetic or AI-generated depiction of a minor exactly as it reaches an authentic photograph or recording.

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
NIST AI 600-1
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 1.5Safety Decision Frameworks
  • 3.3Access Management
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-1Business need and security risks written down and assessed before deciding to build an AI system.
  • 5.1.4-5End-users told which uses of the system are prohibited.

Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law

Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

Article 13(b) punishes producing, distributing, or otherwise dealing in a real, virtual, or simulated sexual depiction of a person under eighteen with imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 6,000 to 30,000 Dinars; the penalty rises to at least two years and a fine of 9,000 to 30,000 Dinars where the content is designed to lure the juvenile or the purpose is to incite or exploit him; mere possession is punished separately with imprisonment of at least six months or a fine of 3,000 to 6,000 Dinars.

Penalty structure

Three tiers by conduct: producing, distributing, or otherwise dealing in the banned content carries imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 6,000-30,000 Dinars; the aggravated form (content designed to lure, incite, or exploit the juvenile) carries at least two years and a fine of 9,000-30,000 Dinars; mere possession carries at least six months or a fine of 3,000-6,000 Dinars.

Rule
Fixed only
As of
Minimum
3,000
Currency
JOD
Fixed cap
30,000

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Article 13(b) defines the offence and its escalating penalty tiers for real, virtual, or simulated sexual depictions of a minor; it states nothing about logging, record-keeping, or an audit trail. No other article of this Law states a scope or application clause that Article 13 itself invokes.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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Article 13(b) punishes, with imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 6,000 to 30,000 Dinars, sending, publishing, producing, or possessing content that is a sexually stimulating image, recording, or drawing of sexual organs, or a real, virtual, or simulated sexual act, of a juvenile under eighteen years of age.

The same article raises the penalty to at least two years' imprisonment and a fine of 9,000 to 30,000 Dinars where the content is designed to lure the juvenile or the purpose is to incite or exploit him, and separately punishes mere possession of such content with imprisonment of at least six months or a fine of 3,000 to 6,000 Dinars.

Because the offense names "virtual" and "simulated" sexual acts alongside "real" ones, it reaches a synthetic or computer-generated depiction of a minor exactly as it reaches an authentic photograph or recording, without requiring proof that any real child was involved in producing the image. Article 1 of the Law provides that it comes into force thirty days after its publication in the Official Gazette. No official source located states the resulting day.

When LexLint raises it

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