PRESENTATION ON Cyber crimes against Women in Bangladesh GROUP 1 OF LL.M GROUP 2 PREPARED BY TERN AIMAN RAHMAN KHAN (152110059) Fahmi Noor Joynab- 142110029 Kaniz Fatema- 133110014 Maina Begum- 151110069 Fatema Marjan- 152110030 Latiful Islam- 152110060 Oli Ullah- 152110031 Khaleduzzaman Mission- 142110028 Latifa Yeasmin- 143110050 Introduction: Prepared for: Mr. Quazi MH Supan Associate professor, University of Dhaka Lecturer of it law, Law department, Eastern university Bangladesh is relatively a newcomer in the cyber world. Even though faced with obstacles regarding proper internet access, the issue of Information technology remains a top priority of its Government. Along with the benefits it provided the country with, the possibilities of misusing the internet became evident. The rate of cyber crimes sprung with the trend of social networking. It was not until 2002, when the possibility of Cyber crimes was recognized by the Bangladesh
Government. The Information and Communication Technology Act 2006 covered few cyber crimes in its provisions. The Act states that punishment will be imprisonment upto 10 years and a fine of maximum 1 crore taka for committing cyber crime. However the issue of cyber crimes are still a low priority in Bangladesh and women are the prime victims of it. Bangladeshi society tend to still view the females as weak, helpless individuals. Despite the fact that this old fashioned view has changed extensively over the past couple of years, this view does still exist inside the minds of many individuals, especially those who commit crimes against women in the cyber space1. According to the renowned specialist in Cyber Law and its Crimes, Mr. Quazi M H Supan, there are certain cyber crimes which are more likely to target women then their male counterparts. These include cyber stalking, cyber harassment, morphing and obscene publication, email/profile hacking, spoofing, cyber pornography including revenge porn, internet voyeurism, cyber defamation, cyber bullying, e-mail harassment, cyber blackmailing, threatening, emotional cheating by impersonation, intimate partner violence through internet and abetment of such offences. Women who are new to the internet fall trap to the cyber criminals and the results are often disastrous. For 16 year old Rabeya, living in a small town of Sylhet, the internet was a fascinating place where she found no restrictions on her actions. She developed a relationship with a man who claimed to hold office in Dhaka and shared intimate details about her life. After few months of chatting, the man demanded her to send him explicit pictures of herself. Soon after Rabeya rejected such request, the man kept on sending her derogatory comments, images and videos. As Rabeya tried to block and delete the man from her friend list, he began to call her parents and threaten them about leaking inappropriate pictures of their daughter. The images and threats became more frequent which made Rabeya traumatized. She blamed herself for everything and eventually attempted to commit sucide. Incidents like these are an example of a certain Cybercrime called Morphing, one of the three most common cyber crimes in Bangladesh, as emphasized