{"id":8417,"date":"2025-05-21T16:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2025-05-21T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:49:28","slug":"pakistan-cybercrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/05\/21\/pakistan-cybercrime\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan &#8216;Cybercrime\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/is-pakistans-cybercrime-law-silencing-dissent\/a-72623427\">Haroon Janjua, DW, Is Pakistan&#8217;s cybercrime law silencing dissent?, 21 May 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Journalists\u00a0are alarmed about the\u00a0potentially wide<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/pakistan-journalists-slam-new-law-regulating-social-media\/a-71400150\"> <\/a>reach<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/pakistan-journalists-slam-new-law-regulating-social-media\/a-71400150\"> <\/a>of the law, which allows authorities to imprison social media users for up to three years for spreading disinformation and issue fines of up to 2 million rupees ($7,121 \/ \u20ac6,822).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haroon Janjua, DW, Is Pakistan&#8217;s cybercrime law silencing dissent?, 21 May 2025 &#8220;Journalists\u00a0are alarmed about the\u00a0potentially wide reach of the law, which allows authorities to imprison social media users for up to three years for spreading disinformation and issue fines of up to 2 million rupees ($7,121 \/ \u20ac6,822).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,400,712,130],"tags":[102,57,132],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-journalism","category-pakistan","category-pakistan-internet","tag-journalism","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions\/8418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}