LHC grants post-arrest bail to Canadian scholar in cybercrime case

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday granted post-arrest bail to a Canadian national, also a Pakistani PHD scholar, in a cybercrime case. In late February, the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) had registered the case against Hamza Ahmad Khan under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) 2016 for allegedly making anti-state posts on social media platforms X and Instagram. After being denied post-arrest bail by a judicial magistrate and a sessions court, Hamza ...

By [email protected] (Wajih Ahmad Sheikh)