Dahri Urges Social Media Users to Learn Cyber Laws

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Islamabad: Human rights activist and advocate Muhammad Nawaz Dahri on Friday urged social media users to get knowledge of cyber laws to avoid committing crime.
A number of social media users are committing crimes due to their ignorance and lack of knowledge regarding cyber laws he said this while talking to a private television channel.
Nawaz Dahri said that the Prevention of Electronic Crime Act (PECA) was already introduced in 2016 to control the increasing cases of cybercrime. Before the PECA Act, he said social media users had not been monitored replying to a question, he said that we have five to six million active users in the country.
To another question, he said, Our authorities are well equipped to detect every user committing cybercrime, and they could be held responsible through prosecution, he added. He said that defaming someone on social media is a punishable offense, and for this, a heavy penalty could be imposed against the person involved in cybercrime.
He further stated that a person involved in cybercrime could also face three years of imprisonment.