Civil Rights
May 21, 2015
Another casualty in the war on free speech
Last week, banker and secular Bangladeshi writer, Ananta Bijoy Das, was hacked to death by men with machetes as he left his home Tuesday morning to go to work.
Julie L. Kessler
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George Washington Univ Law School
Julie is an attorney based in Los Angeles, a freelance writer for several publications, and the author of the award-winning book "Fifty-Fifty, The Clarity of Hindsight." She can be reached at www.VagabondLawyer.com
Last week, banker and secular Bangladeshi writer, Ananta Bijoy Das, was hacked to death by men with machetes as he left his home Tuesday morning to go to work. This was third murder of a secular writer in Bangladesh in four months. Police said that a little-known extremist group called Ansar al-Islam Bangladesh claimed responsibility for the attack.
Das wrote on science and the evolution of the Soviet Union. While Das sometimes wrote...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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