Without prejudice to any more severe penalty stipulated in any other law, whoever publicly, in public venues, or places available for public, commits any of the following shall be punished with imprisonment for a period of not less than (10) ten years and not exceeding (25) twenty-five years, and a fine not less than (500,000) five hundred thousand dirhams:

1. Drops, damages, or offends the Union’s Flag in any manner.

2. Drops, damages, or offends – in any manner – the flag of any the Emirates members of the Union, the flag of the Cooperative Council for Gulf Arab States, or the flag of any of the other states.

Clause (1) of this Article shall be considered as a crime against the State’s security.