Attacks on secularists in Bangladesh
A group identifying itself as Ansar al-Islam – Bangladesh chapter of al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) – claimed responsibility.
Sources: The Daily Star
Sources: The Daily Star
Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique is killed in the Bangladeshi city of Rajshahi in an ISIL attack.
Faisal Abedin Deepan, a publisher of secular books, is hacked to death in Dhaka.
The United Nations condemned the attacks expressing deep concerns over these threats to free speech.
In a separate incident, another publisher and two writers are stabbed and shot in Dhaka.