Mizanur Rahman alias Minhaz, who was sentenced to death over the killing of Prof Humayun Azad, lashed out at the journalists soon after the judge announced the verdict.
A decade and a half ago, writer, poet, linguist, and a professor of the Bengali Department of Dhaka University, Humayun Azad, was brutally attacked by extremist militants on February 27, 2004, outside the Amar Ekushey Book Fair.
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 …
A Dhaka court today sentenced four members of banned Jama'atul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) to death in a case filed over the killing of Prof Humayun Azad in February 2004.