A Bangladeshi publisher, who worked with slain atheist writer and blogger Avijit Roy, was on Saturday hacked to death by unidentified assailants here.
Faisal Arefin Dipan (43) was killed in his third-floor office in central Dhaka locality of Shabagh, very near the venue of months of demonstrations demanding capital punishment for Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and other fundamentalists who had collaborated with Pakistani troops during Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971.
“Dipan died of stab wounds on the shoulder,” Muntasirul Islam, spokesperson of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), said.
Bangladesh police headquarters spokesman Nazrul Islam told PTI that Dipan was slaughtered and he died instantly.
Dipan’s father Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq, himself a noted intellectual and writer, said “I saw him [Dipan] lying upside down in a pool of blood. He is dead.”
He said those who opposed free speech were behind his son’s murder. Witnesses said sound of firing was also heard from the supermarket. Full story...
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Faisal Arefin Dipan (43) was killed in his third-floor office in central Dhaka locality of Shabagh, very near the venue of months of demonstrations demanding capital punishment for Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and other fundamentalists who had collaborated with Pakistani troops during Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971.
“Dipan died of stab wounds on the shoulder,” Muntasirul Islam, spokesperson of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), said.
Bangladesh police headquarters spokesman Nazrul Islam told PTI that Dipan was slaughtered and he died instantly.
Dipan’s father Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq, himself a noted intellectual and writer, said “I saw him [Dipan] lying upside down in a pool of blood. He is dead.”
He said those who opposed free speech were behind his son’s murder. Witnesses said sound of firing was also heard from the supermarket. Full story...
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