A publisher of a slain online critic of religious militancy was hacked to death in the Bangladeshi capital, police said, hours after similar attacks wounded two secular writers and another publisher.
Faysal Arefin, who was killed on Saturday in Dhaka, published books by Avijit Roy, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin who was murdered in the same way in February.
The body of Arefin, the 43-year-old chief of the Jagriti Prokashoni publishing house, was found inside his office. The perpetrators had locked the office before carrying out the attack, police said.
Arefin's father, Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq, a noted intellectual and writer, said: "I rushed to his office at Aziz Market and broke the padlock, and I saw him lying upside down in a massive pool of blood. They slaughtered his neck. He is dead."
Jamaluddin Mir, a police officer, told Al Jazeera that at least seven other people were trapped inside the office when the attack was carried out.
"The criminals introduced themselves as customers who were buying books and entered the publishing house," he said, adding that an investigation to identify the attackers was under way.
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Posted: at 1-11-2015 09:13 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
danielsony at 1-11-2015 10:06 AM (9 years ago) (m)
God have mercy,
Posted: at 1-11-2015 10:06 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
nametalkam at 1-11-2015 12:42 PM (9 years ago) (m)
What freedom of speech, at least in Nigeria they just lock some up, all these middle East nations are brutal, the guy was hacked to death.... Menh
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Posted: at 1-11-2015 12:42 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
There are more killings done in the name of religion in the last 400yrs than diseases and hunger...the largest killings has been done by the Christian religion..it's time to get rid of all forms of organized religion..you don't need religion to tell you to love or help your neighbor. Common sense dictates that you should know that....A world without religion
Posted: at 1-11-2015 03:32 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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