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DHAKA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) Bangladesh announced a bounty of 2 million taka (19,428 U.S. dollars) for clues leading to the arrest of two death-row convicts who w
Dhaka, Bangladesh – A court in Dhaka has sentenced eight people of a banned armed group to death in connection with the murder of a publisher in the capital six years ago.
Faysal Arefin Dipon, the publisher of Bangladesh’s Jagriti Prokashoni, was hacked to death on October 31, 2015 in his own office in the city’s Shahbagh area.
Among the “secular” books Dipon published was one by Avijit Roy, an American citizen of Bangladeshi origin who was murdered in a similar manner in February that year.
Both the murders were carried out by members of Ansar al-Islam – a hardline group that was banned by the Bangladesh government in May 2015.