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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Faisal Mahmud

Bangladesh sentences four to death for killing blogger in 2015

Bangladeshi social activists hold a banner with a portrait of Ananta Bijoy Das during a protest against his killing, in Dhaka [File: A M Ahad/AP]

Dhaka, Bangladesh – A court in Bangladesh has sentenced four people to death for killing a blogger and science writer critical of hardline religious thought seven years ago.

Ananta Bijoy Das, known for his critical writings on religions, was attacked by masked men with machetes near his home in the northeastern city of Sylhet on May 12, 2015.

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