The killing is the latest in a series of lethal attacks on intellectuals and activists in the country. Police said unknown assailants with machetes attacked English professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, as he walked to the bus station from his home, on his way to the city’s public university where he taught.
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Statement by PEN International on the murder of Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique in Bangladesh
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Media figures call for release of Himal Editor Kanak Mani Dixit
by , 23 April 2016It is with deep concern that we have learned of the arrest today of Kanak Mani Dixit, the widely respected founder-editor of Himal Media and a courageous voice for transparency, freedom of expression and democratic rights in Nepal and across South Asia. The charges are related to alleged corruption but Kanak Dixit says it is part of a vendetta pursued against him by people in Government.
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The left in the West needs to accept that there is an extremism problem among Muslims | Umer Ali
22 April 2016Saying ‘terrorism has nothing to do with Islam’ is as problematic as saying ‘all Muslims are terrorists’. Both these statements provide sweeping generalization for a complex issue
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India: #SpareTheHandwaraGirl - An appeal by a group of concerned Kashmiri professionals and students
22 April 2016’We appeal to eminent people in and outside Kashmir...to come forward to help the girl and her family find a temporary shelter outside the valley’
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Bangladesh’s shameful response to religion critic killings | Paul Fidalgo and Michael De Dora
22 April 2016An innocent young man is brutally hacked to death in the street by marauding thugs with machetes, and the government’s response is to effectively blame the victim. This is the outrageous and absurd situation in the supposed democratic state of Bangladesh, where a bloody campaign of terror is being waged against secularists and atheists who have criticized radical Islam.
