Facing Cyber Terrorism in Criminal Law

Cyber terrorism is one of the latest examples of real terrorism and an increasing threat to the international community, employed by individuals having access to this modern science and wants to apply it against third world countries through illegal employment of modern technologies and electronic and computer devices in virtual space. Therefore, putting aside the fact that it is the West which is mostly the main cause of cyber terrorism while claiming leading the fight against it, there are certain international documents designed and approved to prevent and contain all forms of terrorism, particularly cyber terrorism. Pathologically speaking, we can claim that these documents not only have not brought any success in fighting this emergent phenomenon, but have, also, deteriorated the situation by paving the way for its rise in national and international arena. Thus, the present article takes a close look at cyber terrorism and its related concepts and evaluates the international documents from the perspective of international criminal law.