Court Suspends Clauses of Security Law Affecting Journalism and Detention

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A court decision has suspended several clauses of a security law. The suspended clauses include:

  • Clause 12, which targets citizen journalism and crowd-sourced reporting by inserting a new section into the Penal Code.
  • Clause 16, part of a set of amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code (Clauses 15-21) that would allow the police to hold arrested suspects longer than 24 hours.
  • Clauses 26 and 29 of the Evidence Act, which are part of a larger set of clauses (26-31) making electronic messages and digital materials admissible as evidence in legal proceedings.

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