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Bangladesh: Cops arrests absconding convict in murder of secular blogger

Dhaka: Bangladesh police on Monday arrested an absconding death row convict for the gruesome murder of a secular blogger in 2013, that set off a chain of attacks targeting liberal writers in the Muslim-majority country.

Vietnam police arrest prominent anti-state blogger

Vietnamese police on Wednesday detained a prominent blogger for distributing anti-state information, the latest in a crackdown on critics of the country's Communist rulers.

Bangladesh blogger murder: Dhaka court indicts five activists of banned militant outfit

A Dhaka court on Wednesday charged five activists of a banned militant outfit for the 2015 murder of popular blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, who wrote against the Jamaat-e-Islami and radical Islamists.

United States asks Bangladesh to ensure secure environment to its citizens

Raising concerns over the recent spate of attacks on secular bloggers and minorities, the US has asked Bangladesh to ensure a "secure environment" to all its citizens.

Bangladeshi blogger death: Recent murders carefully planned to destabilise nation, says Hasina

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday that the recent spate of murders of secular bloggers and minorities had been carefully planned to destabilise the country and held main opposition BNP and its allies responsible for the killings.

Protests break out in Vietnam after popular blogger goes on trial

A prominent Vietnamese blogger went on trial Wednesday on anti-state charges, amid heavy security at Hanoi's central court, with police closing roads and breaking up a protest by dozens of supporters.

Prominent Vietnamese blogger put on trial for alleged anti-state posts

A lawyer says a prominent Vietnamese blogger will be put on trial this week in Hanoi for alleged anti-state postings

Vietnam free high-profile blogger, US call for more releases

Vietnam has freed a high-profile blogger who has traveled to the United States, which is pressing for more such dissidents to be released.

Third blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh, AQIS claims responsibility

Machete-wielding masked men hacked to death a 33-year-old secular blogger in Bangladesh today with terror group al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent claiming responsibility for the brutal murder, the third such attack by Islamists since February in the Muslim-majority nation.

No end to intolerance in Bangladesh: Another blogger hacked to death by masked men

Police say masked men hacked a blogger and author to death near his home in northeastern Bangladesh while he was on his way to his job at a bank.