Dhaka, Oct 8 (Just News): Secretary General of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said they do not accept the recently passed Digital Security Act-2018.
“The parliament which passed the act is not legal itself,” Fakhrul said at a view-exchange meeting on Digital Security Act at a hotel in Dhaka today.
The Editors Council was given hope that their recommendations will be taken into consideration but that has not been done as well, said Nazrul Islam Khan, a senior BNP leader who also attended the programme.
“There are black laws, but this law is the blackest of black,” Nazrul Islam Khan added.
Amid widespread criticism and concerns over free speech, President Abdul Hamid today signed the Digital Security Bill; thereby enacting it as a law.
The law, termed draconian by independent organisations both at home and abroad, was drafted and passed in parliament on September 19.
(Justnews/ys/2310hr)
