Amnesty International has called on the Pakistani authorities to immediately release eight people detained by the FBI after they posted tweets critical of the state.
"Pakistani authorities must stop using Pakistan's draconian cybercrime law to punish people simply exercising their right to freedom of expression online," said Dinoshika Dissanayake, South Asia Research Director at Amnesty International.
"For too long, successive governments have used this law as a tool to crush peaceful dissent and intimidate supporters of the political opposition," he added.
He stressed that no one should be arrested simply for expressing their opinions, "whether online or offline".
Yesterday, Wednesday, April 13, the FBI arrested 8 people.
The arrests came after the agency launched a crackdown on social media activists, whom the agency believes are involved in a smear campaign against state institutions.
The agency told the media that the arrests were not linked to any opposition political parties.
On April 9, Imran Khan was ousted as the country's prime minister after a vote of no-confidence in the Pakistani parliament.
His exit came just days after he attempted to block the vote, which the Supreme Court had ruled "unconstitutional".
Imran Khan and his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, argue that their overthrow was the result of collusion between the United States and the opposition, which sparked nationwide protests by his supporters.
The party's social media team has since launched a Twitter campaign seeking to denounce the country's military, courts and the country's new leadership.