Cyber Security Act could be deadlier than DSA: BNP

Staff Reporter :
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Rahul Kabir Rizvi on Monday said that the proposed Cyber Security Act could be deadlier than the Digital Security Act (DSA).

“We fear the Cyber Security Act will be more dire and dangerous than the Digital Security Act,” he said while speaking at a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office in the capital.

He also said, “I don’t think anything good can come from the hands of a fascist regime when they are in power.

The government has taken the move to transform the Digital Security Act as Cyber Security Act as eyewash due to local and international pressure.”

Earlier, Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq said the government has decided to replace the Digital Security Act with the Cyber Security Act 2023, in which some sections of the existing law will be amended.

Rizvi said the people of the country now cannot express their opinion freely in the panic of being subjected to repression in jail and enforced disappearance.

“The right of rally of political parties is at the prudence of the police.

Voters have lost the right to vote as per their choice through a fair election. A subservient information system has been developed to falsify the truth continually.

Some sections of media are being used to spread misinformation and slander with the state backing,” the BNP leader said.

He alleged that the pro-democratic forces have been carrying out their fight for the restoration of democracy and their lost rights in the face of inhuman torture by the fascist regime.

Rizvi alleged that the government has so far arrested around 500 BNP leaders and activists centring BNP’s grand rally and sit-in programmes in the capital held on July 28 and 29 respectively.