Faysal Arefin, the publisher of a slain online critic of religious militancy, was hacked
to death on Saturday, October31, in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, police said. Hours after his killing, similar
attacks wounded two secular writers and another publisher.
The 43-year-old chief of the Jagriti Prokashoni publishing house published books
by Avijit Roy, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin who was murdered in
the same way in February. The body of Arefin was found inside his office. The perpetrators, who pretended to be customers, had locked the office before carrying out the attack, police said.
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