Banglash Milants Get A Death Sentence For Killg A Gay Rights Activist : NPR

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• 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH BANGLASH FOR KILLG OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
• BANGLASH SENTENC 6 ANTS TO ATH FOR KILLG GAY ACTIVISTS
• MILANTS GET A DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLG A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHO WORKED FOR USAID
• BANGLASH SENTENC SIX ANTS TO ATH FOR KILLG GAY ACTIVISTS

6 SENTENCED TO DEATH BANGLASH FOR KILLG OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Asia Pacific|6 Sentenced to Death Banglash for Killg of Gay Rights Activist ADVERTISEMENTThe activist Xulhaz Mannan, who had started a gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr magaze, was hacked to ath a machete attack Salahudd/NurPhoto, via Getty ImagDHAKA, Banglash — Six men said to belong to an Islamist ant group were nvicted and sentenced to ath on Tuday over the 2016 killgs of a proment Banglashi gay rights activist and his Xulhaz Mannan, an activist sometim referred to as Julhas Mannan, and his iend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy were hacked to ath April 2016, was seen as yet another a seri of targeted attacks agast amics, secular wrers and activists who wrote views cril of Islam. Mannan’s killg was the first attack on a gay rights activist. “They cid to slay the victims for their volvement gay rights’ activism, ” a special anterrorism tribunal Dhaka said on Tuday announcg the nvictns and sentenc.

Four of the men are ctody, while two rema at large, cludg Syed Mohammad Zil Haque, a former major fired by the Banglashi Army, which acced him 2012 of volvement an attempted Mannan had tried to anize a march for gay and transgenr youths April 2016, but the police orred nceled after threats of vlence and fears uld e a relig backlash. The men rried parcels ntag machet that the police said were ed the openly gay man a nservative society where homosexual relatns rema outlawed, Mr. Mannan started a Banglashi gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr magaze, Roopbaan, 2014.

BANGLASH SENTENC 6 ANTS TO ATH FOR KILLG GAY ACTIVISTS

Six members of an Islamist ant group were sentenced to ath on Tuday by a urt Banglash for the btal killg of two gay rights mpaigners five years ago.

Xulhaz Mannan, 35, the edor of Banglash’s first magaze for gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) people, and actor Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, 25, were hacked to ath Mannan’s apartment the pal Dhaka April 2016 an attack claimed by Ansar Al Islam, the regnal arm of al Qaeda. At least after a long time, we get jtice, ” said Shahanur Islam, a gay rights mpaigner.

MILANTS GET A DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLG A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHO WORKED FOR USAID

Police rt spected Islamist ants acced of the slaygs of two men, cludg a proment gay rights activist, as they head to urt Dhaka, Banglash, on Tuday. DHAKA, Banglash — A Banglash anti-terrorism tribunal on Tuday sentenced six Islamist ants to ath the btal slaygs of two men, cludg a proment gay rights activist, five years ago, lawyers said. In April 2016, assailants hacked to ath Xulhaz Mannan, an edor of Banglash's first gay rights magaze who had worked for the U.

Embassy protol officer, was edor of the gay rights magaze Roopbaan as well as a of former Foreign Mister Dipu Moni of the erng Awami League party.

BANGLASH SENTENC SIX ANTS TO ATH FOR KILLG GAY ACTIVISTS

DHAKA, Aug 31 (Rters) - Six members of an Islamist ant group were sentenced to ath on Tuday by a urt Banglash for the btal killg of two gay rights mpaigners five years Mannan, 35, the edor of Banglash’s first magaze for gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) people, and actor Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, 25, were hacked to ath Mannan’s apartment the pal Dhaka April 2016 an attack claimed by Ansar Al Islam, the regnal arm of al killgs were part of a seri of attacks on atheist bloggers, amics and other mori that shocked the South Asian natn of 170 ln and led many to go to hidg or flee the eight fendants the se, six were found guilty of murr and sentenced to ath, public prosecutor Golam Sarwar Khan Special Anti-Terrorism Tribunal also nvicted the six of belongg to a terrorist anisatn, the al Qaeda-spired domtic ant anisatn Ansar Ullah Bangla Team, Khan said, a group that police believe is rponsible for the murrs of more than a dozen secular activists and men's fence lawyer Nazl Islam said they would appeal their tribunal acquted two other fendants, who are on the n and were tried absentia, Khan said.