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Dhaka, Feb 10 (EFE/EPA).- A Bangladesh court on Wednesday awarded death sentence to eight members of a banned Al Qaeda-linked Islamist outfit for the 2015 killing of a publisher who worked with atheist writers and published secular books.Judge Mojibur Rahman of the Dhaka Anti-Terrorism Tribunal fined each convict 50,000 takas (approximately $600) for the murder of Faisal Arefin Dipan, a prosecutor Golam Sharuar Khan told EFE.The convicts belonged to the Ansar al Islam extremist group. (Camera: MONIRUL ALAM).SHOT LIST: ONE OF THE ACCUSED IN THE 2015 MURDER OF PUBLISHER FOISAL AREFIN DIPON IS ESCORTED TO COURT WEARING A POLICE HELMET AND A BULLETPROOF VEST, IN DHAKA, BANGLADESH.
A Hindu priest in Bangladesh was hacked to death on Friday, the latest in a series of violent attacks against liberal activists and religious minorities in the country.
A Hindu temple worker is hacked to death in western Bangladesh, the latest in a series of attacks on religious minorities by suspected Islamists. IMAGES
Human rights groups are calling for a swift and thorough investigation after the fourth such killing of an online critic of religious extremism in less than six months. Gavino Garay reports.
People hold banners and wreaths and chant slogans in a protest to mark the ten-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. More than 1,130 people died in the catastrophe, spotlighting the global fashion industry's reliance on developing world labour working in dangerous and sometimes deadly conditions. IMAGES
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