Bangladesh’s prominent blogger Imran H Sarker, who has launched protests against the killings of the bloggers and minorities in the Muslim-majority country, has received a death threat from an unidentified caller from the UK, a day after a liberal professor was brutally murdered.
“I have been issued a death threat from a number belonging to a code of ‘United Kingdom’ at 7.12pm on Sunday. It has been said that I will be soon killed,” Sarker wrote in a message on his official Facebook page.
“Asked about the identity of the person issuing death threat, he avoided responding to my question. He repeatedly threatened to kill me. Then, he disconnected the phone,” said the blogger, who has nearly one million friends on his Facebook page. Sarker, who is also the spokesperson of the Shahbag Movement, said, “I am not afraid of such threats’.
He was threatened last year also along with several others, including Dhaka University Vice chancellor.