Digital Security Act (DSA)
‘CSA will be repealed’
Law Adviser Asif Nazul yesterday said the government will move towards repealing the controversial Cyber Security Act.
Writing in the time of autocracy
it is difficult to put a number on those innumerable Bangladeshis who lived in fear or had a peripatetic life during Hasina-led regime.
Cancel all CSA, DSA cases against journos: Editors' Council
The Editors' Council today demanded that the government withdraws and cancels all the cases including those filed against journalists under the Cyber Security Act (CSA) and the previous Digital Security Act, as well as harassment cases related to the recent movement
DSA was indeed a political weapon
What guarantee is there that the CSA won’t be abused similarly?
60pc DSA cases filed by agencies, govt or AL activists
Around 60 percent of the Digital Security Act cases were filed by law enforcement agencies, the government, or pro-government political parties, according to a research paper by Centre for Governance Studies (CGS).
Flowery rhetoric on CSA cannot redeem it
High Court judge’s comments a wake-up call for CSA proponents
Opinion / Of the AL, for the AL, and by the AL
AL-nominated and AL independent candidates will have enough AL supporters to represent a decent voter turnout.
Overhaul the Cyber Security Agency to protect data
Citizens’ data must be protected
Will Khadija’s ordeal end with her release?
The long shadow of DSA continues to haunt victims
'BNP will scrap repressive laws, including DSA, if it comes to power’
BNP today said that it will scrap all “repressive acts and ordinances including Digital Security Act” if it comes to power.
Column by Mahfuz Anam: Why are there so many laws against free media?
With the numerous laws that already exist to regulate—or better still, suppress—the media, and the diligence with which new ones are being prepared, one would think that of all the areas that need fixing, our government expects the journalists to be “fixed” first. But why?
Journalism under siege on digital front
Journalism in Bangladesh is under siege on the digital front, beginning from surveillance to draconian laws.
Don’t normalise living in fear
Bangladesh is a nation that is being carried almost entirely by the labour of its underprivileged and uneducated people, who slave away at garment factories and toil abroad to send back remittances.
No scope to repeal sanctions on Rab without concrete actions: US Ambassador
There is no scope for repealing the sanctions against Rab, without concrete actions and accountability, United States Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas said today.
How fares the opposition in Bangladesh?
The prime minister had made a very profound and significant remark at the beginning of this month on the state of the opposition in the country.