DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh have joined forces with social media giants Meta and TikTok in an effort to prevent suicides after a man in Dhaka shot himself in the head during a livestream earlier this month. The death of the 58-year-old man on Feb. 2, identified as Abu Mohsin Khan, father-in-law of renowned Bangladeshi actor Riaz Uddin Ahamed Siddique, shocked the South Asian
BenarNews
A special court formed eight years ago to handle cybercrime in Bangladesh has completed work on a fraction of thousands of cases in its docket, and obtained only 30 convictions, court records show.
Due to this backlog, and the difficulty of getting bail under vaguely worded laws aimed at regulating online speech, hundreds of accused people languish in jail for months, lawyers and investigators say.
“This is true that the conviction rate at the Cyber Tribunal is low. Many lawyers try to point to flaws of the investigation and prosecution, but this is not the case,” Nazrul Islam Shamim, the tribunal’s public prosecutor, told BenarNews.
Please save me, I have no other option but to die.
A middle-aged homemaker pleaded while calling the hotline number of Police Cyber Support for Women (PCSW) wing at the Police Headquarters around midnight on November 29.
The victim said she gave an alert post on Facebook that her sister s ID had been hacked. Responding to it, a woman called her on messenger and said it would take money to recover the hacked ID.
During further communication, the caller hacked this woman s ID and demanded the victim engage in some unsocial activities or pay a huge sum of money to get her ID back.