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2 Bangladeshi Militants, On Death Row For Killing Blogger, Flee Court
Two Islamist militants, who were sentenced to death for killing prominent Bangladeshi-American secular blogger Avijit Roy and his publisher, escaped dramatically from the premises of a crowded court.
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Another Bangladeshi Publisher Gets Death Threat
A day after the killing of a publisher of secular books in Bangladesh, another publisher on Sunday received threats to his life through SMS.
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Bangladesh Arrests 3 Islamists Over Killings of Secular Bloggers
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.
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6 Bangladeshi Activists Threatened By Al Qaeda-Linked Islamists
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.
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4 Booked in Bangladesh Blogger Hacking Case
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.
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Bangladesh Bans Islamist Group Linked to Blogger Killings
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.
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Protest in Bangladesh Over Blogger Ananta Bijoy Das's 'Evil' Murder
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.
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Third Secular Blogger Ananta Bijoy Das Hacked to Death in Bangladesh
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.
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Bangladesh Police Stood Close by During Attack: Blogger Avijit Roy's Widow
The wife of an American blogger and critic of religious extremism who was hacked to death in Dhaka last month said that police stood nearby when the couple were attacked on a university campus in the Bangladesh capital.
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US Condemns 'Brutal Murder' of Blogger in Bangladesh
Washington Friday condemned the "brutality and cowardice" of the killing of an American blogger of Bangladeshi origin and called his murder an assault on the country's "proud tradition" of free speech.
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Bangladesh Activists Protest US Blogger Avijit Roy's Murder
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Dhaka on today to denounce the murder of a prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin hacked to death with machetes after he allegedly received threats from Islamists.
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US Blogger of Bangladeshi Origin Hacked to Death
A US blogger of Bangladeshi origin was Thursday hacked to death in Dhaka by unidentified assailants, police said, with his family saying the writer had received numerous threats from Islamist militants.
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Blogger's death rekindles anti-Islamist protests in Bangladesh
More than 100,000 Bangladeshi protesters, angered by the killing of one of their leaders, poured back onto the streets of the capital on Saturday to demand the death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in the 1971 independence conflict.
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Anti-Islamist blogger killed in Bangladesh: police
A blogger who had been critical of Bangladesh's Islamist groups was killed in the capital late on Friday, police said, a day after he attended a big rally against leaders of the country's largest Islamic party.
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2 Bangladeshi Militants, On Death Row For Killing Blogger, Flee Court
Two Islamist militants, who were sentenced to death for killing prominent Bangladeshi-American secular blogger Avijit Roy and his publisher, escaped dramatically from the premises of a crowded court.
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Another Bangladeshi Publisher Gets Death Threat
A day after the killing of a publisher of secular books in Bangladesh, another publisher on Sunday received threats to his life through SMS.
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Bangladesh Arrests 3 Islamists Over Killings of Secular Bloggers
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.
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6 Bangladeshi Activists Threatened By Al Qaeda-Linked Islamists
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.
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4 Booked in Bangladesh Blogger Hacking Case
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.
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Bangladesh Bans Islamist Group Linked to Blogger Killings
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.
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Protest in Bangladesh Over Blogger Ananta Bijoy Das's 'Evil' Murder
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.
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Third Secular Blogger Ananta Bijoy Das Hacked to Death in Bangladesh
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.
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Bangladesh Police Stood Close by During Attack: Blogger Avijit Roy's Widow
The wife of an American blogger and critic of religious extremism who was hacked to death in Dhaka last month said that police stood nearby when the couple were attacked on a university campus in the Bangladesh capital.
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US Condemns 'Brutal Murder' of Blogger in Bangladesh
Washington Friday condemned the "brutality and cowardice" of the killing of an American blogger of Bangladeshi origin and called his murder an assault on the country's "proud tradition" of free speech.
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Bangladesh Activists Protest US Blogger Avijit Roy's Murder
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Dhaka on today to denounce the murder of a prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin hacked to death with machetes after he allegedly received threats from Islamists.
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US Blogger of Bangladeshi Origin Hacked to Death
A US blogger of Bangladeshi origin was Thursday hacked to death in Dhaka by unidentified assailants, police said, with his family saying the writer had received numerous threats from Islamist militants.
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Blogger's death rekindles anti-Islamist protests in Bangladesh
More than 100,000 Bangladeshi protesters, angered by the killing of one of their leaders, poured back onto the streets of the capital on Saturday to demand the death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in the 1971 independence conflict.
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Anti-Islamist blogger killed in Bangladesh: police
A blogger who had been critical of Bangladesh's Islamist groups was killed in the capital late on Friday, police said, a day after he attended a big rally against leaders of the country's largest Islamic party.
