Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Pakistan Sets Death Penalty for Cyber Terrorism

Pakistan Sets Death Penalty for Cyber Terrorism: "Causing death through 'cyber terrorism' will be punishable by death in Pakistan, according to a decree issued by President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday. The Prevention of Electronic Crimes law will be applicable to anyone who commits a crime detrimental to national security through the use of a computer or any other electronic device, the government said in the ordinance.

'Whoever commits the offence of cyber terrorism and causes death of any person shall be punishable with death or imprisonment for life,' according to a copy of the ordinance, published by the state-run APP news agency."

1 comment:

CG said...

I saw an article about this sometime last week! Although the new law seems pretty strict, the author of the article I read seemed to think that the maximum sentence of death would rarely be used. Just as a large majority of cyber-related cases in the US don't seem to amount to much, the law would act mostly as a deterrent.