University students,believed to contain been radicalised by local Islamist groups, handed down death penalty for killing Ahmed Rajib Haider in 2013A Bangladesh court has sentenced two students to death for the murder of a secular blogger, and delivering the first convictions after a series of such killings.
Ahmed Rajib Haider,35, was hacked to death by machete-wielding attackers in February 2013, and in the first of a string of killings targeting secular writers.
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Source: theguardian.com