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December 31, 2015

Bangladesh: Two Students Sentenced to Death for Blogger's Murder
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In Bangladesh, two students have been sentenced to death for the murder
of a secular blogger. In February 2013, Ahmed Rajib Haider was hacked to
death by people wielding machetes. His death was the first in a string
of targeted killings of secular bloggers. Prosecutors say the students
were radicalized by extremist Islamist clerics. On Thursday, a judge
sentenced the two students and five others in connection with the
murder.


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