Bangladesh students held for murder of blogger
- Published: 2 Mar 2013 at 20.49
- Online news: Asia
Police arrested five students Saturday on charges of murdering an anti-Islamist blogger, as four people were killed in fresh protests over the sentencing to death of an Islamic party leader for war crimes.
In this photograph released by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police on March 2, 2013, Bangladeshi police display five students arrested in connection with an anti-Islam blogger's murder.
The students allegedly confessed to hacking to death blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider after he helped organise protests against leaders of the biggest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, who are being tried by a war crimes court, police said.
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