Liberal Bangladeshi blogger hacked to death
Bangladesh police have reported that ,a law student who posted pro-atheism comments on social media has been murdered in the latest in a chain of incidents that involved the murder of secular activists and bloggers in the country.
28-year-old Nazimuddin Samad was the seventh secular activist who has been killed.Last year, assailants hacked to death at least four atheist bloggers and a secular publisher in a long-running series of targeted killings of secular activists.
Men on the motorbike first hit the victim with machetes and then proceeded to shoot him to make sure he was dead according to the Police
No group immediately claimed responsibility but Police suspected that Samad had been targeted for his outspoken atheism in the Muslim-majority country, and for supporting a 2013 movement to demand capital punishment for war crimes involving the country’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971.
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