Law Minister Anisul Haque yesterday said a new law will soon be enacted to resist cyber terrorism and for the trial of cyber terrorists.
He said this while speaking at a seminar on Resisting Cyber Terrorism: Role of the Government and Civil Society at Dhanmondi’s WVA auditorium in the capital.
The Forum for Secular Bangladesh and Trial of War Criminals of 1971 organised the programme.
The defeated forces of 1971 started a war in a new format and this time too they will be defeated, he added.
Zunaid Ahmead Palak, state minister for the ICT, said after the five basic rights Internet facility is one of the most important needs.
He also stressed the need for a new law to stop cyber crime.
Justice Syed Amirul Islam, Advisor of the Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, said enactment of the new law is not only solution to bringing an end to cyber crime the law must be implemented.
Mustafa Zabbar, president of Bangladesh Computer Society said, as the present law is not adequate to fight cyber crime the government should go for a new ICT law.
Among others, Shahriar Kabir, acting president of Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, Shamsundar Shikdar, secretary, the ICT ministry and Md Abdur Rashid, executive director of the Institute of Conflict, Law and Development Studies were present at the programme.
