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'Anti-islam' comments: Four Bangladeshi bloggers indicted
[Dawn] A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against four bloggers for making "derogatory comments about Islam" on social media.The trial of the two cases against them will begin on November 6. The four bloggers, who are now on bail, pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." and demanded justice. If convicted in the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, each of them will face 10 years' rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Tk 1 crore, under the Information and Communications Technology Act, 2006. The cabinet, however, had approved the draft ICT (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013, proposing that the maximum jail term for an offence covered by the law be increased to 14 years. The four are Subrata Adhikari Shuvo, 24, a master's student at Dhaka University; Russel Parvez, 36, a teacher at an English medium school; Mashiur Rahman Biplob, 42, a resident of the capital's Pallabi area, and Asif Mohiuddin, 28, an ex-student of a private university. Shuvo, Parvez and Biplob were tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! on April 2, under Section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, in different areas in the capital on suspicion of making derogatory comments about Islam. Police later filed a general diary against the trio for uploading "contents insulting to Islam" on social media platforms. Posted by: Fred 2013-09-10 |
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