Welcome to H&C,,, where I aggregate news of interest. Primary topics include abuse with "the church", LGBTQI+ issues, cults - including anti-vaxxers, and the Dominionist and Theocratic movements. Also of concern is the anti-science movement with interest in those that promote garbage like homeopathy, chiropractic and the like. I am an atheist and anti-theist who believes religious mythos must be die and a strong supporter of SOCAS.
So this is definte progress on Neel's assassination,,,
Bangladesh police say they have
arrested two suspected members of a banned Islamist group over the
killing of atheist blogger Niloy Neel.
The two men were suspected
members of Ansarullah Bangla Team, a militant group accused of links to
previous attacks on bloggers, police said.
Mr Neel was hacked to death by a gang armed with machetes at his home in the capital Dhaka last week.
It was the fourth such killing of a secular blogger this year.
Police say the two men being held are key suspects in Mr Neel's murder.
Mr Neel's attackers had tricked their way into his home by saying they were looking to rent a flat.
Bangladesh is officially secular but critics say the government is indifferent to attacks on bloggers by Islamist militants.
The 3 following posts concern the assassinations of the secular Bangladeshi writers over the course of the past years or so. Because investigative details are sketchy along with the possible overlap in suspects, I not sure which story goes to which writer. The one commonality is the extremist group Ansar Al Bangla (Ansarullah Bangla Team).
Detectives
yesterday started extensive surveillance on three suspects for their
involvement in the murder of Niladri Chatterjee, who was killed on
Friday at his Goran flat allegedly in the hands of radical Islamists.
The trio were identified based on statements of the wife of the slain
secularist writer, neighbours and locals, and also by analysing the
post-mortem and the inquest reports.
To confirm their identities, the detectives have sent a blood-stained
towel and a red T-shirt collected from the ground floor of the building
to the forensic department of Dhaka Medical College for DNA test.
They also collected Niloy’s teeth from the flat and sent those for examination.
Investigators said that the eight major stab injuries, found on Niloy’s body, were made by a left-handed killer.
During primary investigation, the detectives have also found that the
email claiming responsibilities for the murder was sent to different
media outlets after the killing from a laptop based in Hathazari area of
Chittagong.
A group named Ansar Al Bangla sent the email, signed by its
spokesperson Mufti Abdullah Ashraf. High officials of the Detective
Branch of police have said that it was a fake name.
