(another) Secular activist murdered in Bangladesh

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 and bloggers in the country.

Nazimuddin Samad, a 26-year-old atheist who had taken part in protests against Islamist leaders, was attacked late on Wednesday near his university in Dhaka by unknown assailants carrying machetes.

"They hacked his head with a machete. As he fell down, one of them shot him in the head with a pistol from close range. He died on the spot," deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Syed Nurul Islam told AFP.

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It was the sixth such killing in 15 months and sparked protests in Dhaka, where more than 1,000 students blocked a busy road to demand the attackers be brought to justice.

"You just can't kill a man just because he is an atheist," one protester shouted.

No one has yet been prosecuted for the murders of four atheist bloggers and a secular publisher hacked to death last year, although police have arrested members of a banned group called the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT).



https://www.yahoo.com/news/secular-activist-hacked-death-bangladesh-041816515.html



Students in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka protest after the murder of law student Nazimuddin Samad on April 7, 2016 (AFP Photo/Munir Uz Zaman)