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Is it permissible to demand material and moral compensation for damages resulting from a false report that led to accusations and imprisonment, and what is the appropriate legitimate and jurisprudential amount for this compensation?

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The majority of jurists do not consider it permissible to receive financial compensation for moral and emotional damages, unlike material damages. As for legal fees and material litigation expenses, it is permissible to take them from the one who caused their incurrence through his injustice.

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