report in Prothom Alo, Aug 30, 2023Human rights activists and various journalist forums have been expressing their concern after the publication of the Cyber Security Act draft. They say that the government is keeping the basic content of the controversial Digital Security Act intact, with just a change in name. In face of such criticism and objections, two more sections of the proposed law have been made bailable. Now four sections of the act remain…
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By Mumtaz Alvi in The News, August 21, 2023ISLAMABAD: On the issue of President’s signature on draft amendments to the Official Secrets Act and Army Act, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Sunday decided to move the Supreme Court immediately in the light of Alvi’s message on his social media account. “We will place the matter before the Supreme Court and request the chief justice to fix and account for the responsibility through investigation in every aspect of it,”…
report in The Island, Jan 16, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe told the “Voice of Global South Summit” on Friday (13) that India is in the best position to act as a bridge between the developing countries, which are facing a debt crisis, and the G20….. State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe attended the Finance Ministers’ session on 12 January 2023. In this session, Ministers exchanged views on financing the development needs of the Global South, achieving…
by Zyma Islam in The Daily Star, Jan 15, 2023Only two percent of the people accused under the Digital Security Act saw their cases come to a close with the court handing either a conviction, an acquittal or the dismissal of the case. This is according to the data collected by the Centre for Governance Studies (CGS), who logged each case filed between October 2018 and August 2022. It recorded 1,109 cases filed under the…