Bangladesh sentences four to death for prominent writer’s murder

Azad's 2004 murder is considered the first in a series of brutal killings of academics, writers, bloggers and secularists in Bangladesh a decade later [Mahmud Hossain Opu/Al Jazeera]

A court in Bangladesh has sentenced four people to death for the murder of prominent writer and academic Humayun Azad in 2004.

Azad, 56, was hacked with cleavers by the members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) on February 27, 2004 when he was on his way home from a book fair in Dhaka.