Yet Again! Secular Publisher Hacked To Death In Bangladesh

A publisher of a slain online critic of religious militancy
was hacked to death in the Bangladeshi capital, police said, hours after
similar attacks wounded two secular writers and another publisher.

Faysal Arefin, who was killed on Saturday in Dhaka,
published books by Avijit Roy, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin who was
murdered in the same way in February.

The body of Arefin, the 43-year-old chief of the Jagriti
Prokashoni publishing house, was found inside his office. The perpetrators had
locked the office before carrying out the attack, police said.

Arefin’s father, Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq, a noted
intellectual and writer, said: “I rushed to his office at Aziz Market and
broke the padlock, and I saw him lying upside down in a massive pool of blood.
They slaughtered his neck. He is dead.”

Jamaluddin Mir, a police officer, told Al Jazeera that at
least seven other people were trapped inside the office when the attack was
carried out.

“The criminals introduced themselves as customers who
were buying books and entered the publishing house,” he said, adding that
an investigation to identify the attackers was under way. See another photo below.