Although no one knows what charges they face, documents suggest they are being held under an archaic, Raj-era law – the frontier crimes regulations.
People who try to visit blocked addresses are redirected to a web page that reads: "Access to the website is denied according to [Iran's] computer crimes regulations".
Currently the Federal Investigative Agency FIAA) has at least 7 of these suspects in custody; and they face charges under Pakistan's penal code, cyber crimes regulations, and the Anti-Terrorism Act.
This approach to policy analysis has been applied to disputes concerning risk, environmental degradation, water engineering, organizational control, crime, traffic regulation, and religion.
In the UK, though, encryption can be a de facto crime under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), the Labour-era assault on civil liberties.
The interest on bonds is subject to the directive, for instance, but dividends on shares, bond-like insurance products or income from derivatives are not.Compared with the glacial progress on initiatives to counter tax avoidance, international projects on financial crime and bank regulation have done rather well.
"Crime, violence, slums, building regulations flouted, vulgar tourists, brusque Thais.
Then complaints surface that the police are being handcuffed by the new regulations, and crime is on the rise again.
With high crime areas and costly regulations, Gordon said the island is "on paper not a great place to do business.
The report also calls for tougher regulation of crime laboratories.
