FREEDOM of speech, that most glorious of ideals, once envisioned as the beating heart of democracy, has devolved into a tragicomedy in many parts of the world. In some nations, it is a grand performance piece 鈥� hailed with great fanfare but existing only as a figment of collective imagination. Others prefer a more Kafkaesque approach...
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Friday said that the lawsuits filed over 鈥榮peech offence鈥� would be dismissed simultaneously with the repeal of the Digital Security Act.
Cases pending under repealed provisions of Bangladesh鈥檚 Information and Communication Technology Act should be dropped, the Clooney Foundation for Justice鈥檚 TrialWatch Initiative and Centre for Governance Studies said in a report released on Saturday...
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...
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 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...
The Cyber Tribunal in Dhaka聽on Monday sentenced Tithy Sarker, a suspended student of Jagannath University, to five years imprisonment in a case filed under the Digital Security Act on November 5, 2020, for making derogatory remarks about Islam on social media...
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...
Police submitted a charge sheet against online activist Pinaki Bhattacharya and former joint secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, Mofizur Rahman Ashik, in a case filed in 2022 under the Digital Security Act 2018...