Showing posts with label AFP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AFP. Show all posts

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Bangladesh has formed court to try cyber criminals.

A Bangladeshi woman logs onto social networking website Facebook on her laptop in Dhaka on May 15, 2012
By Anwar Hossain; AFP reported that Bangladesh has formed a fast-track court to try cyber criminals after a spike in crimes involving mobile phones and social networking sites such as Facebook, an official said Thursday. The country's government has done it while the biggest protest is going on against the verdict of the International Crime  Tribunal (ICT), and unfortunately this demonstration and protest is organized by the bloggers and activists of Bangladesh. 

Experts and bloggers expressed their concerns that -it might be used by the government to prosecute bloggers and activists, those who are active in the cyber world.