Citizens including University teachers, political leaders, and rights activists in a statement issued on Friday demanded withdrawal of the cases filed against activists Rakhal Raha, Nahid Hasan Knowledge, and Sohel Hasan Ghalib under the Cyber Security Act.
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government law adviser Asif Nazrul said most of the cases filed to suppress the student-led mass uprising between July 1 and August 5 have been withdrawn.
The interim government on Thursday decided in principle to repeal the controversial Cyber Security Act 2023.
Law, justice, and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul announced on Thursday that the Cyber Security Act 2023 would eventually be abolished.
The interim government has announced the withdrawal of all cases filed under the cybercrime laws during the 15-year tenure of Sheikh Hasina, who resigned as prime minister and fled to India on August 5 amid a student-mass uprising...
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Sunday said that the Cyber Security Act would be amended soon.
THIS is alarming that the tendency to muzzle any voice critical of the government is repeated by the political groups that have been vocal against legal harassment of dissenting voice and political opposition during the tenure of the toppled Awami League regime. A case was filed on September 24 under repressive clauses of the Cyber Security Act against a man...
A case has been filed against a man in Chattogram allegedly for insulting the Quran and posting a social media video where the interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus and information adviser Nahid Islam were disgraced...
Journalists in Rajshahi on Sunday urged the interim government to scrap the Cyber Security Act immediately to ensure people鈥檚 freedom of speech...
Forum for Freedom of Expression Bangladesh on Thursday urged the interim government to repeal the Cyber Security Act immediately and enact democratic, humane...
The Editors鈥� Council on Monday in a statement urged the interim government to remove the obstacles to independent journalism.
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services urged the interim government to repeal the Cyber Security Act 2023...
The Amnesty International on Thursday urged the interim government of Bangladesh to repeal or amend the Cyber Security Act 2023...
THE observations that Transparency International Bangladesh has made on the Cyber Security Rules 2004 鈥� consequent on the Cyber Security Act 2003 passed in September 2023 鈥� suggest that the government has not made the course correction that it needed even after repeated criticism of the law by the well-meaning section of society...
An activist of Juba League, the youth wing of the ruling Awami League, was sent to jail through a court order on Wednesday under the Cyber Security Act for posting a satirical image of prime minister Sheikh Hasina on his Facebook account...
Researchers and civil rights campaigners, in a webinar on Tuesday, called for the formation of an independent commission to examine the justification of filing thousands of cases under the Digital Security Act in the span of five years started from 2018...