Digital Security Act, 2018 of Bangladesh: A study on the situation of Press Freedom and Journalistic Investigation

Abstract

As a human being it is our right to being free and think independently. As a citizen of Bangladesh our constitution has given us the opportunity of freedom of expression, freedom of speech and freedom of privacy. Now this is a time of modern technology and science. Today we express ourselves through internet. This an opportunity to become free and share our view, opinion, comment through cyberspace. But some acts restrict us using this opportunity like section 57 of the ICT act and some section of the Digital Security Act 2022. Section 57 is the most criticized and questionable section and that is why this section was repealed but in 2022 section 57 was again reflected in a new act which is “The Digital Security Act 2022”. In this thesis we will show that weather section 57 of ICT Act is reborn in The Digital Security Act? And weather the digital security act is contradictory to the constitutional right? Taking into account the provisions of the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), and Recommendation (No. 190), Members should identify types of domestic work that, by their nature or the circumstances in which they are carried out, are likely to harm the health, safety or morals of children, and should also prohibit and eliminate such child labour. Human Rights Watch has collected the testimonies of domestic workers in numerous countries; in most cases, the victims endured sexual violence because they were unable to escape, felt acute financial pressure to remain in their jobs, or were under threat of greater harm if they did report. Workers who did denounce their victimizers were often fired and, in the case of migrant domestic workers, immediately repatriated. The continuum of sexual violence ranges from propositions, threats of rape, and groping, to repeated rape.