Page 62 - Digital Security News Today

As I weigh the risks and uncertainties involved in this field against other seemingly “safe” career options, the constant questions about my chosen journalism major haunt me every day.

Every time citizens and rights bodies demand that the Digital Security Act be repealed, the government buys time, saying reforms “are underway”.

With general elections due early next year, the ruling Awami League is intensifying its assault on what remains of the country’s free media.

It is true that the US and several other Western nations have been increasingly putting emphasis on holding credible elections in countries like ours’ for quite some time. But it has rarely featured in such detail at this level.

The government is arguing that the Digital Security Act is meant for providing security to people in digital platform. But in reality, it is being used to harass those criticising the government, speakers said at a webinar yesterday.

Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) today temporarily suspended the principal of its women's college over a Facebook post that allegedly hurts religious sentiment

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

Participants held placards with various demands, including the repeal of Bangladesh's current digital security law, control of the market's rising commodity prices, protection of democracy and free speech, and an end to extrajudicial killings.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abdul Momen in Washington on Monday, April 10th (Blinken had asked Momen to meet him)