Popular Bangladeshi blogger hacked to death

A gang attacked Niloy Chakrabarti a blogger who published under the name Niloy Neem.

He was killed in the capital’s Goran neighborhood after attackers armed with machetes broke into his flat.

The victim is the fourth secularist blogger to be killed this year targeting those posting online pieces critical of Islam.

“They entered his room in the 5th floor and shoved his wife aside and the hacked him to death. He was listed target of the Islamist militants,” Imran Sakar head of a network of activists and bloggers said.

Niloy, 40, was a critic of religious extremism that led to bombings in mosques and the killing of numerous civilians, Sarker said

“He was critical against religions and wrote against Islamist, Hindu and Buddhist fundamentalism.

Another blogger who survived an attack by militants in 2013 described Niloy as an atheist “free thinker” whose posts appeared on several sites.
 "He was critical against religions and wrote against Islamist, Hindu and Buddhist fundamentalism. He was a founding member of a rationalist organization,” Mohiuddin, who is now based in Berlin, told AFP by phone.

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