An alleged atheist blogger from Bangladesh was murdered on March 30, Monday. This highlights the frequency and viciousness of attacks against free expression in the developing South Asian countries and around the globe.
Three assailants brutally murdered a fundamentalism critic Washiqur Rahman, close to his house in Dhaka on Monday morning, The Christian Monitor reported.
Rahman was violently stabbed to death some 460 meters away from his home in Begunbari area, authorities explained.
Wahidul Islam, Dhaka's local police chief, disclosed that they were able to arrest the men who slew Rahman immediately after they tried to flee the scene of the crime.
Law enforcement officers have not confirmed if Rahman was an atheist blogger but he is definitely known to be writing against religious fundamentalism under the penname Kutshit Hasher Chhana.
"It appeared Rahman used to write using a penname Kutshit Hasher Chhana (Ugly Duckling)," said Imran Sarker, head of Blogger and Online Activists Network in Bangladesh.
Sarker also added that Rahman is known to be a progressive thinker and very much against religious fundamentalism, according to ABC News.
Meanwhile, the suspect over the murder of Avijit Roy, an American atheist writer and blogger who was cruelly killed in February, have been arrested.
Roy was second to be killed in the Muslim populated country over the last two years, and he was the fourth writer to be attacked since 2004. His murder made an impact to the local and overseas activists who stay under protest for a long period of time demanding that justice be served.
These protests scream at the government for not doing enough to give the right protection to humanist writers.