Bangladesh police Tuesday charged five suspected Islamist militants
with murder over the killing of an atheist blogger, one of four secular
writers hacked to death this year for writing against fundamentalists.
Police
brought the charges — the first in any of the four murders this year
— in a Dhaka magistrates court, which will now decide whether to open a
trial or order further investigations.
"We've submitted a charge sheet against five people for the murder of
blogger Washiqur Rahman. The five were charged with murder," Dhaka
police spokesman Muntashirul Islam told AFP.
"They
include an organiser of the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) and four others
who are its supporters," he said, referring to a banned local Islamist
militant group which police have blamed in all four murders.
Washiqur Rahman, 27, an atheist blogger who wrote under a pen name on
Facebook against religious fundamentalism — especially Islam and
Islamist radicals — was killed near his home in Dhaka in March.
Bangladesh charges five Islamists over murder of secular blogger - Firstpost
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