Another Bangladeshi blogger killed in Dhaka because of his views on religion

Another Bangladeshi blogger fell to attacks by people who hated him for his views on religion. The group of men armed with machetes killed the secular activist at a crowded intersection in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. This has been confirmed by a police official and is the latest in a series of grisly attacks on intellectuals and bloggers who have written critically about Islamists on social media.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 8 April 2016.

According to witnesses, a group of clean-shaven men surrounded the 28-year-old law student at the state-run Jagannath University. He hailed from Sylhet, was a convinced atheist and used to express his views on Facebook. At the time of the attack, he was walking on the street and the time was around 8.30pm. The attackers slashed his head and then shot him when he fell to the ground.
The location was Wari, the area of Old Dhaka where the killing took place.
This stabbing was similar to a series of earlier attacks on bloggers that had been carried out last year, often in crowded public places. The leader of al-Qaida's branch in the Indian subcontinent had released a video taking credit for two of the killings in which the victims were labeled as "blasphemers". In October there were fatal attacks on two men who had published the works of atheist writers.


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Another Bangladesh blogger hacked to death in Dhaka

#Dhaka #Bangladesh #WashiqurRahman #AvijitRoy #blogger Another blogger Washiqur Rahman of Bangladesh has been hacked to death in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka near his home in Begunbari region. This brutal killing has come within a month of murder in broad daylight of another blogger. He was Avijit Roy, a US-blogger and he fell victim to a machete attack while he was visiting Dhaka.
He was a prominent atheist writer and had criticized religious intolerance.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 30 March 2015.

Two students at an Islamic seminary have reportedly been arrested in connection of the death of Washiqur Rahman. He used to blog under a pen-name, Kucchit Hasher Channa, or Ugly Duckling and had criticized irrational religious beliefs. He was killed on a busy street in Dhaka and two suspects, armed with meat cleavers, were caught near the scene.
These suspects has told the police they had targeted Washiqur Rahman because of his anti-Islamic writing.
These deaths of Avijit Roy and Washiqur Rahman have brought forth concerns about freedom of speech in Bangladesh. Several secular-minded writers have been targeted in the country by militants.

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