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Another blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh: police
DHAKA: A blogger was hacked to death in the Bangladesh capital on Monday, in the latest brutal attack on the country's independent writers, a senior officer said.
Police have arrested two men over the murder which comes just weeks after an American atheist blogger was also hacked to death in Dhaka ─ a crime that triggered international outrage, the officer said.
“He was brutally hacked to death this morning with big knives just 500 yards [460 metres] from his home at Dhaka's Begunbari area,” local police chief Wahidul Islam told AFP.
Islam said the men were arrested immediately after the attack while they were trying to flee the scene.
Police said they were unsure whether the victim, Washiqur Rahman, 27, was also an atheist blogger but another social media writer said that he was known to write “against religious fundamentalism”.
“It appeared Rahman used to write using a pen-name Kutshit Hasher Chhana [Ugly Duckling],” Imran Sarker, head of Blogger and Online Activists Network in Bangladesh, told AFP.
“He was a progressive free thinker and was against religious fundamentalism,” he said.
Police have also arrested a suspect over the killing, in February, of American atheist writer and blogger Avijit Roy.
Roy was the second atheist blogger to have been murdered in the Muslim-majority country in the last two years, and the fourth writer to have been attacked since 2004.
His killing sparked an uproar at home and abroad, with hundreds of secular activists holding protests for days to demand justice.
They also slammed the country's secular government for not doing enough to protect humanist writers.
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No place for free thinking in Bangladesh
Sad.... RIP
Very sad. RIP.
"They also slammed the country's secular government for not doing enough to protect humanist writers."
No, you will not get any special security.
yep what can you say free thinking is a threat so it's not allowed in certain society's
Oh that sort of hacking, I was thinking stilen Id or something.
Rest in peace brother.
Hasina has laid the seeds of discontent , violence, intolerance and conflict. She needs to be ousted soon.
Come to India write from here. If we can host 50 million Bangaladeshi maid servant driver construction worker we can host few intellectual too..
Pen should not be used to hurt others feeling specially religious. We after death will be judged by our acts deeds. Good wishes like RIP may not help those who do not believe in God
We should help KSA as they have always helped us thru thick and thin. We should not leave them alone whatever the reason whatever the cause we should stand by their side and ensure that their internal security is not endangered........
It is very sad and no one should be allowed to take law in hand. At the same time any writing that hurts anyone's religious feelings cannot be termed "progressive", and should be avoided.
No human being should be killed on account of their views. Killers are in fact a menace to their own ideology. They bring shame to all peace loving Muslims. This is nothing but Jahalet.
The world today is more n more insecure. and reason we know that.
I have not read Rehman's writings, however, writers are good writers if they know how to write their views, and bring others opinion to home, without hurting others feeling.
@jawed mirza I think maybe you are responding to the wrong article.
Very sad. RIP
The Dogma certainly causes Decline ... including in basic decent humane treatment... of those who dare think and speak outside the dogma.