Very recently the Transparency International has said the political parties, police and the judiciary are among the most corrupt in Bangladesh. Now the amended ICT law empowers the police to arrest any citizen without any warrant for suspected cyber crime. The suspect will be also denied any bail and end up in the jail for 14 years.
According to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) (Amendment) Act 2013, a person will face similar punishment without bail for willfully publishing anything “untrue and obscene” on a website that may result in “defamation, deterioration of law and order situation, tarnishing the image of the state or individuals and hurting people’s religious sentiments.”
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