Killers of celebrated Bangladeshi academic get death penalty 18 years later

Dhaka, Apr 13 (EFE).- A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced to death four members of the banned Islamist group Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for killing renowned poet and academic writer Humayun Azad in 2004. The writer was brutally stabbed on Feb.27 by five members of the radical group while returning from a book fair, and …

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