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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.
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