- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
A group affiliated to al Qaeda claimed responsibility today for killing a Bangladeshi gay rights campaigner and his friend, the latest in a string of murders of liberal activists and other minorities in the South Asian nation. The slaying of Xulhaz Mannan, editor of Bangladesh’s first magazine for gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, has deeply shocked Bangladesh’s embattled community of free-thinking intellectuals. Mannan, 35, was hacked to death on Monday in his apartment in the capital Dhaka by a group of assailants posing as couriers. His friend, actor Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, 25, was killed in the same attack, according…
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