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FIA arrest PML-N youth wing leader over hateful content against state institutions
GUJRANWALA: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) youth wing leader, Waleed Butt, after registering a case against him, cyber crime wing in-charge Asif Iqbal confirmed on Tuesday.
Iqbal told a private news agency that Butt, who was previously the president of the party’s youth wing in Gujranwala, was uploading “hateful” and “seditious” content against state institutions on social media.
He further said that in his posts, Butt had used “inappropriate language against the judiciary, army officers and Prime Minister Imran Khan”.
A first information report (FIR) was registered on Monday at the Gujranwala sub-circle of the FIA Cyber Crime Circle on the complaint of a citizen named Ameer Hamza.
The case was registered under Sections 11 and 20 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (Peca) — a cyber-crime law which had been widely criticized by civil rights campaigners as ‘draconian’ at the time of its passage by the Nawaz Sharif-led PML-N government — as well as under Sections 500 (punishment for defamation), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief), and 109 (punishment of abetment if the Act abetted committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment).
https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/20...r-hateful-content-against-state-institutions/
GUJRANWALA: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) youth wing leader, Waleed Butt, after registering a case against him, cyber crime wing in-charge Asif Iqbal confirmed on Tuesday.
Iqbal told a private news agency that Butt, who was previously the president of the party’s youth wing in Gujranwala, was uploading “hateful” and “seditious” content against state institutions on social media.
He further said that in his posts, Butt had used “inappropriate language against the judiciary, army officers and Prime Minister Imran Khan”.
A first information report (FIR) was registered on Monday at the Gujranwala sub-circle of the FIA Cyber Crime Circle on the complaint of a citizen named Ameer Hamza.
The case was registered under Sections 11 and 20 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (Peca) — a cyber-crime law which had been widely criticized by civil rights campaigners as ‘draconian’ at the time of its passage by the Nawaz Sharif-led PML-N government — as well as under Sections 500 (punishment for defamation), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief), and 109 (punishment of abetment if the Act abetted committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment).
https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/20...r-hateful-content-against-state-institutions/