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The government has formed a committee to investigate how the state’s surveillance infrastructure had been used to violate the rights of citizens during the Awami League regime.

The cabinet made the decision following an investigative report published by The Daily Star into Tk 1,382 crore worth of surveillance equipment that was purchased by Rab, police and the National Telecommunications Monitoring Centre (NTMC), and a report published by Tech Global Institute simultaneously on the same issue.

Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, chief adviser’s special assistant for the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, has been made the head of the committee.

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