Bangladesh: Blogger Oyasiqur hacked to death in a manner similar to Rajeeb Haider and Avijit Roy

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Dhaka Tribune - March 30, 2015

Blogger Oyasiqur hacked to death
Mohammad Jamil Khan
Two madrasa students have been detained for their alleged involvement with the killing

Blogger Oyasiqur Rhaman has been hacked to death in the capital's Dipika Mosque Lane in Tejgaon.


Tejgaon Industrial Police OC Salauddin confirmed the Dhaka Tribune about the death.

Deceased Oyasiqur, son of Tipu Sultan and Rehana Begum of Lakshmipur, lived in Begunbari area of Tejgaon.

The incident happened just a month after the murder of secular blogger and science writer Avijit Roy.

OC Salauddin said miscreants stabbed Washiqur mercilessly around 9am Monday.

Locals took him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where on-duty doctor declared him dead on arrival.

Blogger Oyasiqur Rhaman. Photo: Collected

DMCH police outpost Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Md Sentu said the body was kept at the hospital morgue.

He said none has come to claim Oyasiqur's body as of 1:30pm.

“His face has been distorted as the miscreants hacked him mainly on the face,” said OC Salauddin.


Meanwhile, police detained two madrasa students for their alleged involvement with the killing.

Oyasiqur, known as Oyasiqur Babu on Facebook, was active on different blogging sites. He was also a member of Logical Forum an online discussion forum.

On his Facebook account, Oyasiqur wrote several notes opposing irrational religious belief.

WashiqurBabu-Facebook-Profile-Cover-Photo

He was a admirer of another secular blogger Avijit Roy, who was killed by extremists in Dhaka one month ago.

After Avijit’s killing, Oyasiqur paid tribute to him making his Facebook profile and cover photos with the text: #iamavijit and words cannot be killed.

He was member of eight Facebook group pages including Atheist Bangladesh.

The OC said he has been murdered in the same way like blogger Rajeeb Haider.

Rajeeb, known as Thaba Baba in the blogging community, was hacked to death on February 15, 2013 near his Pallabi home.

A US-based Bangladeshi, Avijit Roy was hacked to death near the TSC roundabout on DU campus on the evening of February 26. In the same attack, Avijit’s wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya, also an active blogger, got critically injured.
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