Apr 25, 2016

Stabbings, unrest in Bangladesh

Quinn Kelley 0 Comment World atheism, Bangladesh, Dhaka, ISIS, LGBT

Unidentified assailants fatally stabbed two men in Bangladesh’s capital Monday, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the USAID, police said. It marks the latest in a series of attacks in the country targeting atheists, moderates and foreigners.

: A Bangladeshi police official stands after in front of an apartment in Dhaka on April 25, 2016, where a leading gay rights activist was allegedly hacked to death. Two people including a leading gay rights activist were hacked to death at an apartment in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, police said, the latest in a series of attacks on minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

: Bangladeshi journalists and onlookers gather in front of an apartment in Dhaka on April 25, 2016, where a leading gay rights activist was allegedly hacked to death. Two people including a leading gay rights activist were hacked to death at an apartment in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, police said, the latest in a series of attacks on minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

: Bangladeshi students block the road and stage a protest following the murder of a law student, hacked to death by four assailants the night before, in Dhaka on April 7, 2016. A Bangladeshi law student who posted against Islamism on his Facebook page has been murdered, police said on April 7, the latest in a series of killings of secular activists and bloggers in the country. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

: Bangladeshi secular activists and university students take part in a protest in Dhaka on April 8, 2016, following the murder a 26-year-old law student. Bangladesh vowed April 8 to catch the killers of a student murdered this week after criticizing Islamists on social media, as hundreds of secular activists held a protest to demand action. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man holds a portrait of Bangladeshi professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, who was hacked to death by unidentified attackers, in Rajshahi on April 23, 2016. Unidentified attackers hacked to death a university professor in Bangladesh on April 23, police said, adding that the assault bore the hallmarks of previous killings by Islamist militants of secular and atheist activists. Police said English professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was hacked from behind with machetes as he walked to the bus station from his home in the country’s northwestern city of Rajshahi, where he taught at the city’s public university. (Md. Abdullah Iqbal/AFP/Getty Images)

: Bangladeshi students block the road and stage a protest following the murder of a law student, hacked to death by four assailants the night before, in Dhaka on April 7, 2016. A Bangladeshi law student who posted against Islamism on his Facebook page has been murdered, police said on April 7, the latest in a series of killings of secular activists and bloggers in the country. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

: Bangladeshi students protest in Rajshahi on April 24, 2016 a day after unidentified attackers hacked to death a university professor. Bangladesh police arrested an Islamist student on April 24 over the hacking to death of a professor one day earlier, the latest such killing claimed by the Islamic State group. (AFP/Getty Images)

: Bangladeshi security personnel escort Shafik Rehman (C) at a court following his arrest in Dhaka on April 16, 2016. Bangladesh police on April 16 arrested a magazine editor over a plot to kill the prime minister’s son, officials said, the latest in a series of journalist detentions that has sparked fears of a press crackdown. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)

: Bangladeshi policemen try to control the crowd of onlookers at a building where two people were found stabbed to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, April 25, 2016. Police in Bangladesh say unidentified assailants have stabbed two men to death, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)

: Bangladeshi people gather outside a building where two people were found stabbed to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, April 25, 2016. Police in Bangladesh say unidentified assailants have stabbed two men to death, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)

: Bangladeshi people gather outside a building where two people were found stabbed to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, April 25, 2016. Police in Bangladesh say unidentified assailants have stabbed two men to death, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)

: Bangladeshi policemen arrive at a building where two people were found stabbed to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, April 25, 2016. Police in Bangladesh say unidentified assailants have stabbed two men to death, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)

: An unidentified co worker of U.S. Agency for International Development, (USAID) employee Xulhaz Mannan who was stabbed to death wails as she returns from the crime spot in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, April 25, 2016. Unidentified assailants fatally stabbed two men in Bangladesh’s capital Monday night, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the USAID police said, in the latest in a series of attacks targeting atheists, moderates and foreigners. (AP Photo)

Stabbings, unrest in Bangladesh

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