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Secular blogger murdered in Bangladesh

Jessie WingardAugust 7, 2015

Bangladeshi blogger Niloy Chakrabarti, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, has been murdered in his home after a gang armed with machetes broke in and hacked him to death. This is the fourth such killing this year.

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