Staff Reporter :
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Monday said that it did not see any alternative to reconstituting the newly passed Digital Security Act-2018 cancelling its retrograde sections.
In the name of digital security, it has been a law contradictory to the spirit of the Liberation War and Constitution of the country, it said in a statement.
TIB opined that the commitment to place the serious concerns of editors, journalists and media in the cabinet meeting for an amendment to the recently passed digital security bill is relaxing. However, TIB expressed concerns over the “insecurity and anxiety” that has been created in people’s mind by the law. TIB Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman said, “We want to believe that the commitment to place the serious concerns of editors in the cabinet meeting is a positive step. But we are deeply anxious after the law was passed hurriedly in the Parliament ignoring the concerns and recommendations of all stakeholders.”
“The law has so many sections which are retrograding and contradictory to the spirit of the Liberation War and Constitution of the country that no partial amendment to it will ease the sense of insecurity.
“There is no alternative to reconstituting the law cancelling all the sections which deter freedom of opinion and expression,” he said.
