Secular blogger killed in Bangladesh, in fourth such attack this year

Earlier this year they killed the three secular bloggers on the street.

Police in Dhaka told reporters the assailants nearly severed the victim’s neck with sharp weapons to ensure he was dead.

The U.S. State Department condemned it as a “cowardly murder“.

Amnesty worldwide urged Bangladesh to send a strong message that killings aimed at silencing dissenting voices were despicable and would not be tolerated.

The UN Special Rapporteurs on freedom of expression and extra judicial executions, David Kaye and Christof Heyns called for a prompt and thorough investigation into the recent murders of bloggers. His wife was at home at the time but was confined to another room while the murder took place.

Dhaka Police spokesman, Muntashirul Islam, said, “We know that Niloy used to work for non-governmental organisations in the past but we are not aware of his journalistic identity”.

“Most of the cases have not been resolved”, the committee said.

Neel used to write about the need for capital punishment for 1971 war criminals, the report said. He claimed the police “refused to register his complaint”. Assailants believed to be Islamist militants en… Now they have killed Chakrabarti.

Mohiuddin says the Bangladeshi government is turning a blind eye toward these crimes. In improvement to actually speaking of dilemmas that include marginal consideration and Hindu cruelty in the us, Chakrabarti also done masses…

” Nijeke khub choto mone hoche, tomar moton ek ujjwal nakhatra ke jaliye rakhte parini (I feel small because we couldn’t keep a bright star like you burning)”, posted a Chittagong-based businessman.

Murdered Bangladeshi blogger Niloy Chatterjee. Accidents have been additionally present in his arms, palms and fingers. And all four men were murdered by machete-wielding Islamic militants, illustrating a troubling trend in Bangladesh where secularists are increasingly targeted for their views.

(AP Photo/A.M. Ahad). A photo frame displaying portraits of blogger Niloy Chowdhury, 40, with his wife is placed inside their room in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, August 7, 2015.

Two people have been arrested, but no-one charged, in connection with this year’s killings, our correspondent adds.

The current government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has embarked on a controversial, criticized crackdown of Islamists in the country, which included prominent politicians who had sided against the country’s independence four decades ago.

In addition to police, Imran Sarker, who heads the Blogger and Online Activists’ Network in the nation, confirmed the attack.

Roy was an atheist and the author of The Virus of Faith, a book that likened religious extremism to an infectious disease. “The price for holding opinions and expressing them freely must not be death”.