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A senior editor of Bangledesh's first LGBT magazine has been hacked to death, police say. | A senior editor of Bangledesh's first LGBT magazine has been hacked to death, police say. |
Julhas Mannan and another person were murdered when three people came to their apartment in the capital of Dhaka, posing as couriers and attacked them. | |
Another person was injured in the attack in Kalabagan. | |
The gay rights activist was an editor for Roopbaan, which focuses on issues facing the country's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. | |
On Saturday, a university professor was hacked to death in Bangladesh, supposedly for "calling to atheism". | |
Rezaul Karim Siddique was on his way to the Rajshahi University, where he worked as an English teacher, when he was attacked. | |
Isis later claimed responsibility for the murder. | |
Earlier this month, a liberal blogger who criticised Islamism was also hacked to death by attackers wielding machetes. | |
Nazimuddin Samad, a 18-year-old postgraduate law student, was attacked as he returned from a unviversity class. | |
At least four atheist bloggers were murdered in 2015 for writing critically against militant Islamism. |