DSA cases filed against Murad, Nahid
12 December 2021, 03:38 pm | Updated: 22 November 2024, 12:09 am
Three cases were filed on Sunday against Dr Murad Hassan, former state minister for information and broadcasting, and Mohammad Mohiuddin Helal Nahid, a Facebook live talk show host, under the Digital Security Act (DSA).
The cases were filed in Dhaka, Rajshahi and Sylhet.
Advocate Omar Faruk, general secretary of the Nationalist Lawyers Forum at Dhaka Bar Unit filed the case with at Dhaka Cyber Tribunal.
Omar Faruk alleged that Murad Hassan and Helal Nahid used “profoundly vulgar, misogynistic, and derogatory language” against the Zia family and Zaima Rahman during a Facebook live and disseminated false information.
Besides, AKM Saiful Islam, senior joint convener of Bogura district unit of BNP, filed the case with the Cyber Tribunal of Rajshahi at 11:30 am.
Apart from this, another case was filed at Sylhet Cyber Tribunal by Advocate Md Tanvir Akther Khan of Sylhet District Bar Association.
The plaintiff of the case Advocate Tanvir said the hearing of the case was scheduled for December 15 by the tribunal's Judge Md Abul Kashem.
