The proposed Cybercrime Bill continues to come under attack with the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday declaring that the bill is “profoundly undemocratic” while the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has called on the government to rescind the “law of sedition” as contained in the bill and other parts of Guyanese law.
According to the WPA the offence has been misused in the past to silence critics of the PPP/C government and goes against the present government’s statements on record that it would dispense power in keeping with the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression.
The party which is part of the governing APNU+AFC coalition affirmed in its statement that “censorial power is in the people over the government and not the government over the people” and expressed the view that political discontent is the cornerstone of democracy.
