DSA being used against opposition, dissidents: BNP

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday alleged that the Digital Security Act (DSA) is being used against opposition leaders and activists and dissidents as a tool of repression.

"The Digital Security Act is a repressive law. If anyone belonging to opposition or any dissenter files a case under the act in the morning, it will be dismissed by the court in the afternoon," said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.

Speaking at a doa-mahfil-cum discussion meeting, he also said when any Awami League leader files a case against a BNP leader under the DSA, the legal process continues smoothly from the very beginning. "That BNP leader will be arrested by police and sent to jail by the court."

Rizvi also said if the BNP leaders are sent to jail under the DSA case they will be granted bail after a long time. "This is how the Digital Security Act has been applied in the country."

Jatiyatabadi Online Activists arranged the programme on the ground floor of BNP's Nayapaltan central office seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of their late colleagues, including MM Obaidur Rahman, Kamarul Hasan Shaheen, Tanima Soma and Shant Islam.