Staff Reporter :
The police have been empowered to arrest on mere suspicion of committing any offence under the Digital Security Act which will make it impossible for press to gather information not liked by the government.
This law meant to rob us our security from police arrest, said Barrister Mainul Hosein at a talk show of SA Tv on Thursday night.
The other participants were senior journalist Mahfuzullah and the chief editor of government news agency BSS Abul Kalam Azad.
Barrister Hosein added to explain how approved draft of the law has empowered a police officer to arrest and search anybody without a court’s order, if he suspects any of the offences mentioned in the Act has been committed.
Thereafter he will be taken to police remand for interrogation. Because the lower judiciary has been recently gone under the control of the government, the accused has almost no chance of being released on bail, Barrister said.
He found it most objectionable to call a journalist a spy because of investigating journalism.
The police have been empowered to arrest on mere suspicion of committing any offence under the Digital Security Act which will make it impossible for press to gather information not liked by the government.
This law meant to rob us our security from police arrest, said Barrister Mainul Hosein at a talk show of SA Tv on Thursday night.
The other participants were senior journalist Mahfuzullah and the chief editor of government news agency BSS Abul Kalam Azad.
Barrister Hosein added to explain how approved draft of the law has empowered a police officer to arrest and search anybody without a court’s order, if he suspects any of the offences mentioned in the Act has been committed.
Thereafter he will be taken to police remand for interrogation. Because the lower judiciary has been recently gone under the control of the government, the accused has almost no chance of being released on bail, Barrister said.
He found it most objectionable to call a journalist a spy because of investigating journalism.
