الملخص الإنجليزي
According to the need to respect the rights and dignity of the human beings, the researcher studied the objective penal protection of the private life. In his introduction, he asked the following question: Do modern legislations recognize and protect the Right to privacy. He firstly discussed the emergence and stages of development of the right to respect other's private life. The researcher found that this right was stated in divine laws, and the Islamic Law (Shari'a) ensured full protection of the human rights including the right to respect the private life. Then, he discussed the international efforts to protect the human rights against any violation, the nations' recognition of these rights, and the need to stipulate them in their respective national laws.
The researcher reviewed the attitudes of the comparative legislations and the Omani legislation with regard to respecting the right to privacy, and how these legislations provide lawful protection of that right from any civil or criminal violation.
The study indicates that the international law experts have agreed on some elements forming the right to respect one's private life which are: their home, their correspondences, their communications, confidentiality of their work, their financial obligations, and their private information saved in computers. However, they disagree on some other elements, whether they are private or not which are as follows: their name, their picture, their body, and their personal life style. The researcher commented on each of these elements in his study.
In his research, the researcher used the descriptive and the analytic methods, in addition to the comparative method as he compared between the Omani law and the laws of some Arab and other countries.
The study concludes with some results and recommendations including the need to amend or add some texts to the Basic Statute of the State (the constitution) and to the penal and procedural laws.
