Seven university students and chief of a banned Islamist group were on Wednesday charged by a Bangladeshi court for the murder of an “atheist” blogger here in 2013. Ahmed Rajib Haider, 35, was hacked to death near his home in Dhaka in 2013, days after he helped in launching a campaign against Islamist leaders accused of committing crimes against humanity by siding with Pakistani troops during the country’s 1971 liberation war.
On January 28 last year, police pressed charges against seven students from North South University and extremist group Ansarullah Bangla Team chief Mufti Jashim Uddin Rahmani, the Daily Star reported.