The journalist Junaid Sagare Qureshi was reserved on Saturday under the Law on the Prevention of Electronic Crimes (PCA) 2016 about a provocative and false video statement, according to the police as a spokesman.
The plaintiff, thus Tariq Mumtaz, saw the video on WhatsApp, according to the police.
In the video statement, Junaid Sagar allegedly said that a dumper ran over a woman in the jurisdiction of the Sir Syed police station as a result of which the public was enraged and attacked the police with stones. In addition, he said that a station station officer along with two other police officers were injured during the incident, according to the first information report (FIR).
According to the statement, it was found when verified that this incident was not reported that involves the police and it was discovered that the news of a woman who was hit was also false.
He continued that the journalist was spreading provocative and false information and a FIR was recorded against him under section 21 of Peca (2016).
Peca, since its introduction in 2016, has been widely criticized as a “black law” created mainly to punish dissent. In the eight years since its promulgation, it has been widely used against politicians, journalists, rights activists and even common political workers.
The National Assembly in January approved a controversial draft amendment to the country’s cyber crime laws in the middle of a strike of legislators and PTI journalists of the procedures.
Qureshi has become the last journalist to face Peca positions. On March 20, the journalist Farhan Malick, founder of the Media Agency Raftar and a former news director in TV SamaaHe was arrested in a case related to the execution of supposedly “antiestatal” content on the YouTube channel of his departure. It was reserved reserved under Peca and the Pakistan Criminal Code.
A few days later, the journalist Waheed Murad, who works with URDU NewsIt was produced before a court in Islamabad by the Federal Investigation Agency, which had reserved it under sections 9 (glorification of a crime), 10 (cyber terrorism), 20 (malicious code) and 26a (punishment for false and false information) of La Peca.
Earlier this month, a police officer was arrested in Karachi Bajo Peca for using “derogatory comments” against President Asif Ali Zardari.
