Bangladeshi Blogger

A prominent Bangladeshi writer and publisher was dragged out of a shop and shot dead by unidentified attackers in central Bangladesh, ending a lull in the killings of secular bloggers and activists in the Muslim-majority country.

A 25-year-old Bangladeshi blogger has been arrested at the Dhaka airport on charges of writing blasphemous posts on social media, police said today.

When Bangladeshi blogger and social activist Ashif Entaz Rabi hosted a TV talk show about a slaying of a publisher by Islamic extremists, he faced a torrent of threatening phone calls. He says young men with earpieces started loitering outside his workplace, and a militant website urged followers to "send this Ashif to Allah."

Bangladeshi police said today they suspect a domestic Islamist militant group of being behind the brutal murder of a secular activist in Dhaka, days after a branch of Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.

Attackers in Bangladesh wielding machetes killed a liberal blogger, police said today, the latest in series of murders of secular activists by suspected Islamist militants.

A day after the killing of a publisher of secular books in Bangladesh, another publisher on Sunday received threats to his life through SMS.

A secular blogger and the publisher of an atheist writer killed earlier this year by suspected Islamists were attacked today in the Bangladeshi capital, police said.

Bangladeshs elite forces today arrested three suspected Islamist militants, including a British citizen of Bangladeshi origin, for masterminding the killings of two secular bloggers in the Muslim-majority nation.

Six Bangladeshi activists, including three poets, have been allegedly threatened by Al Qaeda-linked extremists on Facebook, days after a fourth secular blogger was hacked to death by Islamists in the country.

A murder case has been filed against four suspected Islamist terrorists in connection with the brutal killing of a secular Bangladeshi blogger who was hacked to death after the assailants entered his flat in Dhaka posing as potential tenants.

Niloy Neel, 40, was slaughtered inside his home in Dhaka this afternoon, making him the fourth secular blogger to be killed in Bangladesh since February.

Bangladesh today banned an Islamist militant outfit that is believed to be behind the gruesome hacking deaths of three secular bloggers in recent months that have evoked outrage in the country and across the globe.

Secular activists marched Wednesday through the Bangladeshi city of Sylhet to demand justice for a rationalist blogger hacked to death, the third such attack by suspected Islamists since February.

A masked gang wielding machetes hacked a secular blogger to death Tuesday in northeastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack since February, police said.

On a recent evening in a Midwestern U.S. city, a middle-aged woman with bandaged arms and a missing thumb entered a crowded restaurant. Nearby, children colored with crayons. Waiters rushed by.

A prominent Bangladeshi writer and publisher was dragged out of a shop and shot dead by unidentified attackers in central Bangladesh, ending a lull in the killings of secular bloggers and activists in the Muslim-majority country.

A 25-year-old Bangladeshi blogger has been arrested at the Dhaka airport on charges of writing blasphemous posts on social media, police said today.

When Bangladeshi blogger and social activist Ashif Entaz Rabi hosted a TV talk show about a slaying of a publisher by Islamic extremists, he faced a torrent of threatening phone calls. He says young men with earpieces started loitering outside his workplace, and a militant website urged followers to "send this Ashif to Allah."

Bangladeshi police said today they suspect a domestic Islamist militant group of being behind the brutal murder of a secular activist in Dhaka, days after a branch of Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.

Attackers in Bangladesh wielding machetes killed a liberal blogger, police said today, the latest in series of murders of secular activists by suspected Islamist militants.

A day after the killing of a publisher of secular books in Bangladesh, another publisher on Sunday received threats to his life through SMS.

A secular blogger and the publisher of an atheist writer killed earlier this year by suspected Islamists were attacked today in the Bangladeshi capital, police said.

Bangladeshs elite forces today arrested three suspected Islamist militants, including a British citizen of Bangladeshi origin, for masterminding the killings of two secular bloggers in the Muslim-majority nation.

Six Bangladeshi activists, including three poets, have been allegedly threatened by Al Qaeda-linked extremists on Facebook, days after a fourth secular blogger was hacked to death by Islamists in the country.

A murder case has been filed against four suspected Islamist terrorists in connection with the brutal killing of a secular Bangladeshi blogger who was hacked to death after the assailants entered his flat in Dhaka posing as potential tenants.

Niloy Neel, 40, was slaughtered inside his home in Dhaka this afternoon, making him the fourth secular blogger to be killed in Bangladesh since February.

Bangladesh today banned an Islamist militant outfit that is believed to be behind the gruesome hacking deaths of three secular bloggers in recent months that have evoked outrage in the country and across the globe.

Secular activists marched Wednesday through the Bangladeshi city of Sylhet to demand justice for a rationalist blogger hacked to death, the third such attack by suspected Islamists since February.

A masked gang wielding machetes hacked a secular blogger to death Tuesday in northeastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack since February, police said.

On a recent evening in a Midwestern U.S. city, a middle-aged woman with bandaged arms and a missing thumb entered a crowded restaurant. Nearby, children colored with crayons. Waiters rushed by.