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Two men sentenced to death in Bangladesh for murder of blogger

Two men have been sentenced to death in Bangladesh for the murder of a blogger. 35-year-old Ahmed...
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11.30 31 Dec 2015


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Two men sentenced to death in Bangladesh for murder of blogger

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11.30 31 Dec 2015


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Two men have been sentenced to death in Bangladesh for the murder of a blogger.

35-year-old Ahmed Rajib Haider - who wrote under the pen name Thaba Baba - was hacked to death with machetes in February 2013.

Police said he had angered people by criticising Islam and mocking the Prophet Mohammed on blog sites.

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The two men convicted of Haider's death are university students - one of them is on the run and was sentenced in absentia.

Six other people were sentenced to prison terms, including the head of the group - Ansarullah Bangla - suspected of having carried.

BBC reports that five more secular writers and blogged were killed in Bangladesh in 2015.


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