A lawyer has served a legal notice to the government, urging it to withdraw the restrictions on using social media websites and apps.
Lawyer Kumar Debul Dey sent the notice to the secretary of the Post and Telecommunication Ministry yesterday afternoon.
In the notice, Dey said he would take further legal steps if the government did not lift the ban on Facebook, Viber and Whatsapp within 24 hours.
According to the lawyer, the government’s decision to block social media was a violation of Article 39 of the Constitution of Bangladesh and also the Right to Information Act 2009.
On November 18, the government blocked the social networking platforms soon after the Supreme Court rejected review petitions by war criminals Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, both of whom were later executed.
