Staff Reporter :
Human rights organization Amnesty International has expressed its grave concern regarding “crackdown on freedom of express in Bangladesh under the Digital Security Act (DSA)”.
AI’s Germany-based leader Maria Th. Dickenscheid in a letter sent to Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Speaker of Jatiya Sangsad called for annulment of the law saying “I urge you to end the crackdown on people’s
right to freedom of expression and urgently repeal the draconian Digital Security Act (DSA) unless it can be amended in compliance with international human rights law and standard”.
“Bangladesh has at least 433 people imprisoned under the DSA as of July 2021, most of whom are held on allegations of publishing false and offensive information online.”
AI said those targeted include journalists cartoonists, musicians, activists, entrepreneurs, students and even a farmer who cannot read or write, among others.
