The police requested the government to take steps to shut 84 porn sites featuring uncertified erotic photographs & video clips of Bangladeshi men & women, a senior police officer said.
‘We have requested the government to shut the net sites as they jeopardise the social life of plenty of Bangladeshi young boys & girls as their nude photographs & X-rated video clips were put on the sites without permission,’ assistant inspector general of police Mohammad Nazrul Islam told New Age, a daily Bangladeshi English newspaper.
The police made the request after two years of inquiry which revealed that a section of people from outside the country is uploading such photographs & video clips captured secretly.
‘There are several thousand such photographs & video clips of Bangladeshi men & women on such sites, which also publish commercial for prostitution,’ the police officer said, quoting a document submitted to the home secretary.
The investigators also found that photographs of Bangladeshi girls & women, including models & other celebrities, had been modified & edited to give them an erotic look, said the police officer.
Jogging such web-sites is illegal, according to Bangladeshi laws, & against the values of society, he said, adding the system to take legal action against such web hosts is difficult & time-consuming as they are run from outside the country.
‘We have requested the home ministry to take measures through Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Authority to shut the sites,’ said Nazrul.
He said a female university student had recently tried to commit suicide after her nude video clips had been uploaded on one pornographic site.
Plenty of female students abandoned their studentship as their nude photographs were published on the porn sites, he said.
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