Police in
Bangladesh say they have arrested three men, including a British
citizen, in connection with the killing of two bloggers earlier this
year.
Rapid Action
Battalion spokesmen said on Tuesday that they have arrested Touhidur
Rahman, 58, and two other “active members” of Ansarullah Bangla Team,
which was banned in May over a spate of killings of bloggers.
“We’ve
arrested them in the capital [Dhaka] today. We can confirm that Rahman
is a Bangladesh origin British citizen. He is the main planner of the
attacks on Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das,” Major Maksudul Alam told
AFP news agency.
At least 14
other members belonging to several groups have been arrested this year
in connection with the violent deaths of bloggers in the South Asian
country.
Four
bloggers have been killed since January. On May 12, Ananta Bijoy Das was
killed in the Subid Bazar area of northern Sylhet district while
American writer-blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death near the Dhaka
University campus in February.
In March,
blogger Washiqur Rahman Babu was brutally killed in Dhaka by three men
over alleged anti-Islamic writings, with two of the suspected attackers
caught near the scene.
The latest killing took place on August 7, when blogger Niloy Chatterjee, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, was murdered.
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