Social Media Troubles: ISF activist sent on judicial remand

PESHAWAR: A local court sentenced activist Qazi Jalal, from the Insaf Student Federation, to jail on a 14-day judicial remand on Friday. Jalal was arrested by the Cyber Crime Cell of FIA for uploading defamatory content against a member of the judiciary. FIA officials presented the accused at the court of judicial magistrate Qaisar Khan, after his two-day physical remand was over. After the hearing, the court ruled for a 14-day judicial remand. According to the cybercrime department, Jalal had used defamatory language against a judge of the Peshawar High Court on Twitter, a social media website. Jalal is an ISF activist and a student of University of Agriculture in Peshawar. Since his arrest, there has been an ongoing campaign on Twitter advocating for Jalal’s release from custody.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 31^st, 2015.