AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
DHAKA: A blogger who had been critical of Bangladesh’s Islamist groups was killed in the capital late Friday, police said, a day after he attended a big rally against leaders of the country’s largest Islamic party. Protests championed by the country’s bloggers have seen thousands of people take to the streets demanding the execution of leaders of the Jamaat-e-
Islami party who are under trial for war crimes. Clashes between police and Islamist protesters demanding the trials be halted have also rocked the capital. Police found the body of Ahmed Rajib, 35, better known by his online identity Thaba Baba, near his home in Dhaka’s Pallabi suburb, with his head hacked apart.
