Religious students reported to have murdered blogger

Twenty seven-year-old blogger Washiqur Rhman was stabbed to death in Dhaka, the Bagladesh capital today.

The Guardian Online writes:

“It appeared Rahman used to write using a pen name, Kutshit Hasher Chhana [Ugly Duckling],” Imran Sarker, head of the Blogger and Online Activists Network in Bangladesh, said. “He was a progressive free thinker and was against religious fundamentalism.”

Police have arrested two men, reported to be religious students, for the murder, which comes just weeks after an American atheist blogger was also killed in Dhaka, in a crime that triggered international outrage.