Source: The Guardian By Simon Tisdall The government of Sheikh Hasina Wazed is under growing pressure in Bangladesh to end an apparent culture of impunity after a series of brutal murders […]
Source: Yahoo News A court in southern Bangladesh sentenced two Hindu schoolteachers to six months in jail for making “abusive” remarks about Islam that led a mob to attack their […]
Majid Nawaz, The Daily Beast LONDON — There really is no other way to put this. Free thinkers in Bangladesh are being serially hacked to death in their homes. An infamous hit list appeared in 2013 naming 84 “atheist bloggers.” By the end of 2015 there had been seven such murdersacross […]
Source: The Guardian By Saad Hammadi in Dhaka Asha Mone has been living in constant fear for her life. It is eight months since her husband, the Bangladeshi secular blogger […]
Source: BBC Bangladesh police say a top gay rights activist and editor at the country’s only LGBT magazine is one of two people who have been hacked to death. The […]
Source: Aljazeera Editor of magazine for transgender community among latest victims of murders targeting liberal activists. Two people, including the editor of a magazine for the transgender community, have been […]
Source: BBC A university professor has been hacked to death in Bangladesh, in an attack police say is similar to killings of secular bloggers and atheists by suspected Islamist extremists. […]
Source: BDNews24.com IS claims the persons in the photo published in Dabiq are members of its Bangladesh unit. The grassroots followers of Jamaat-e-Islami, an organisation under pressure over the war […]
Source: Rawstory A Bangladeshi law student who posted against Islamism on his Facebook page has been murdered, police said Thursday, the latest in a series of killings of secular activists […]
Source: The Guardian By Saad Hammadi in Dhaka, Aisha Ganiin London and agencies Nazimuddin Samad, whose family live in London, was hacked to death by at least four assailants after […]
Source: CNN By Jethro Mullen CNN’s Saeed Ahmed and Sugam Pokharel contributed to this report. (CNN)Islamic extremists in Bangladesh appear to be taking their war on secular writers and bloggers beyond the South Asian country’s borders. A hit list purporting to be from the militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team […]
Source: The New York Times By MAHER SATTAR and ELLEN BARRY Maher Sattar reported from Dhaka, and Ellen Barry from New Delhi. DHAKA, Bangladesh — It took Bangladesh’s High Court […]
By JULHAS ALAM, ASSOCIATED PRESS, abcnews.go.com DHAKA, Bangladesh — Mar 28, 2016, 7:58 AM ET Bangladesh’s top court rejected a 28-year-old petition Monday to remove Islam as the official religion of the Muslim-majority South Asian nation. The decision by the three-judge High Court panel had been widely expected. The court said the 15-member group […]
Source: Times of India DHAKA: Bangladesh will celebrate its 45th Independence Day on Saturday, March 26th, the day it emerged as a sovereign nation, breaking the shackles of suppression of […]
Source: Voice Of America DHAKA, BANGLADESH—Thousands of Muslims rallied in Bangladesh’s capital on Friday to denounce a court petition seeking to remove Islam as the country’s official state religion. About […]
Source: Independent Islam could be dropped as Bangladesh’s official religion following a number of attacks in the country against people of other faiths. Christians, Hindus and Muslim minority Shiites have […]
Source: Daily Mail By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline Bangladesh considering abandoning Islam as its official religion following wake of extremist attacks Supreme Court is considering dropping Islam as country’s state […]
Source: Yahoo News Bangladesh police have arrested three local Islamists over the decapitation of a top Hindu priest, the latest attack targeting religious minorities in the Muslim-majority nation, officers said […]
City Desk The Daily Star The three-day 92nd annual convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Bangladesh ended peacefully at its National Headquarters in the capital’s Bakshibazar yesterday with a message of serving people irrespective of religion, race or creed. The concluding address was delivered by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the […]
Source: Fox News NEW DELHI – A court in Bangladesh has sentenced five alleged radical Islamists to 10 years in jail after finding them guilty of carrying out a series of explosions in 2005 to demand Shariah law in the Muslim-majority nation. Police Inspector Mominul Islam said the court sentenced […]