HC clears DSE director Minhaz of DSA charges
The High Court on Thursday acquitted Dhaka Stock Exchange director Minhaz Mannan Emon of defamation charges filed under the now-abolished Digital Security Act (DSA), 2018.
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Convictions, cases under 8聽 sections of DSA to be nullified
The interim government on Thursday approved a proposal to amend the 鈥楥yber Security Ordinance 2025鈥�, under which all cases and convictions under eight sections of the now-repealed 鈥楧igital Security Act 2018鈥� will be nullified.
Reimagining media landscape
THE year 2024 marked one of the most dramatic political shifts in Bangladesh鈥檚 recent history. The fall of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 long-serving government, after more than a decade in power, was greeted with optimism among citizens, civil society, and particularly journalists who had long struggled under restrictive media laws. The Digital Security Act (2018), later repackaged...
Of bayonets, digital shackles and free speech
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...
Speech offence cases to go with DSA repeal: Asif Nazrul
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.
CGS, CFJ recommends dropping pending cases under cybersecurity law
Cases pending under repealed provisions of Bangladesh鈥檚 Information and Communication Technology Act should be dropped, the Clooney Foundation for Justice鈥檚 TrialWatch Initiative and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...
Bangladesh to withdraw 1,340 DSA, CSA, ICT cases due to making remarks
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...
Editors鈥� Council for removing barriers to free journalism
The Editors鈥� Council on Monday in a statement urged the interim government to remove the obstacles to independent journalism.
BASIS urges interim govt to repeal CSA
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services urged the interim government to repeal the Cyber Security Act 2023...
Govt must overhaul Cyber Security Act and then redraft rules
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...
JnU student gets five-year jail for FB post
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...
Commission to probe DSA cases demanded
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...
Online activist Pinaki, ex-JCD leader Ashik charged in DSA case
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...
