Of the 16 individuals, 12 were brought to the court around 10:20am

The High Court today scrapped the proceedings of a case filed against three people including BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her son and party's acting chairman Tarique Rahman in 2016 under controversial section-57 of the Information and Communication Technology (Amendment) Act-2013

France and Germany have expressed regret today over the imprisonment of Odhikar Secretary Adilur Rahman Khan and Director ASM Nasiruddin Elan

The European Union has called on the Bangladesh government to foster an enabling environment for the civil society to carry out their work without fear of reprisals.

A Dhaka tribunal today sentenced two officials of rights body Odhikar to two years imprisonment each in an ICT Act case

Chattogram Cyber Tribunal today (July 18, 2022) sent three officials of Deepto TV to jail in three cases – filed under ICT Act section 57 in 2016 – for allegedly “running fake news and defaming” the former minister for expatriates' welfare and overseas employment Nurul Islam BSc and his son Mujibur Rahman.

A Dhaka court yesterday took cognizance of the charges against journalist Probir Sikdar in a case filed under ICT act and fixed June 29 for hearing on charge framing against him.