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Bangladesh Opposition Leaders, Jamaat Activists Granted Bail Amid Unrest
Rights groups accused Hasina's security forces of abducting and disappearing some 600 people -- including many from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the banned Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamist party.
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"Found Him Hiding Inside Locker": Bangladesh Military On Arrest Of Kuki-Chin National Front Leader
Bangladesh's security agencies on Sunday arrested a senior commander of a tribal insurgent group believed to have links with an Islamist terrorist organisation, days after the outfit looted state-owned banks and abducted a bank manager.
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Bangladesh Arrests Terror Suspect In US Blogger Killing
Bangladesh police said on Sunday they had arrested a suspected leader of an Islamist group wanted in connection with the death in 2015 a US blogger critical of religious extremism.
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Bangladesh Arrests Cafe Attackers' 'Spiritual Leader'
Bangladesh police said Friday they had arrested the "spiritual leader" of a banned Islamist outfit alleged to have carried out a series of deadly attacks in the country.
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Bangladesh Arrests Killer Of Secular Blogger, Publisher
An Islamist terrorist leader, the prime suspect in the brutal murders of a secular blogger and a publisher in Bangladesh, has been arrested from the national capital, police said today.
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Bangladesh Set To Hang Extremist Leader
Security was tightened in a Bangladesh southern city on Sunday ahead of the expected execution of a senior Islamist extremist whose group has been linked to the murder of foreign hostages, police said.
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Bangladesh Jamaat Leader Loses Final Appeal Against Execution For 1971 War Crimes
Bangladesh's top court on Tuesday rejected a final appeal by the leader of an Islamist party against a death sentence over atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, lawyers said, meaning he could be hanged at any time.
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Bangladesh Arrests 4 Jamaat-Ul-Mujahideen Leaders In Raids Following Dhaka Attack
Bangladesh's security force arrested four members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) today including a regional leader of the banned group blamed for the Islamist attack on a cafe in Dhaka in which 22 people were killed, mostly foreigners.
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Row Deepens Between Pakistan, Bangladesh Over Executed Islamist Leader
Pakistan and Bangladesh summoned each other's ambassadors today to register "strong protest" in connection with a row over the execution of an Islamist leader in Bangladesh this week, both sides said in statements.
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Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan Condemns Execution Of Bangladesh Jamaat-E-Islami Leader Motiur Rahman Nizami
Turkey's president strongly condemned the execution of an Islamist party leader in Bangladesh.
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Clashes In Bangladesh After Islamist Leader's Hanging
Clashes erupted in Bangladesh today after the execution of a top Islamist leader, heightening tension in a country reeling from a string of killings of secular and liberal activists.
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5 Questions As Bangladesh Hangs Top Islamist Leader Motiur Rahman Nizami
Bangladesh on Tuesday executed the chief of its main Islamist party for atrocities committed during the country's 1971 independence war with Pakistan.
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Bangladesh Executes Top Islamist Leader For War Crimes: Minister
Bangladesh on Tuesday executed the leader of the country's largest Islamist party for war crimes, officials said, a move set to exacerbate tensions in the volatile Muslim-majority nation.
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Bangladesh Sufi Muslim Killed In Suspected Islamist Attack: Police
A local Sufi Muslim leader has been found hacked to death in Bangladesh in a suspected Islamist killing, police said Saturday, two weeks after the ISIS claimed the murder of a liberal professor in the same northwestern district.
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Khaleda Zia Issues Rare Rebuke Of Hindu Priest's Killing
The leader of Bangladesh's biggest opposition party on Tuesday issued a rare condemnation of a recent Islamist killing, a sign the party may be trying to avoid accusations that it is sympathetic to the Islamists as violence increases.
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Bangladesh Opposition Leaders, Jamaat Activists Granted Bail Amid Unrest
Rights groups accused Hasina's security forces of abducting and disappearing some 600 people -- including many from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the banned Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamist party.
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"Found Him Hiding Inside Locker": Bangladesh Military On Arrest Of Kuki-Chin National Front Leader
Bangladesh's security agencies on Sunday arrested a senior commander of a tribal insurgent group believed to have links with an Islamist terrorist organisation, days after the outfit looted state-owned banks and abducted a bank manager.
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Bangladesh Arrests Terror Suspect In US Blogger Killing
Bangladesh police said on Sunday they had arrested a suspected leader of an Islamist group wanted in connection with the death in 2015 a US blogger critical of religious extremism.
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Bangladesh Arrests Cafe Attackers' 'Spiritual Leader'
Bangladesh police said Friday they had arrested the "spiritual leader" of a banned Islamist outfit alleged to have carried out a series of deadly attacks in the country.
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Bangladesh Arrests Killer Of Secular Blogger, Publisher
An Islamist terrorist leader, the prime suspect in the brutal murders of a secular blogger and a publisher in Bangladesh, has been arrested from the national capital, police said today.
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Bangladesh Set To Hang Extremist Leader
Security was tightened in a Bangladesh southern city on Sunday ahead of the expected execution of a senior Islamist extremist whose group has been linked to the murder of foreign hostages, police said.
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Bangladesh Jamaat Leader Loses Final Appeal Against Execution For 1971 War Crimes
Bangladesh's top court on Tuesday rejected a final appeal by the leader of an Islamist party against a death sentence over atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, lawyers said, meaning he could be hanged at any time.
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Bangladesh Arrests 4 Jamaat-Ul-Mujahideen Leaders In Raids Following Dhaka Attack
Bangladesh's security force arrested four members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) today including a regional leader of the banned group blamed for the Islamist attack on a cafe in Dhaka in which 22 people were killed, mostly foreigners.
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Row Deepens Between Pakistan, Bangladesh Over Executed Islamist Leader
Pakistan and Bangladesh summoned each other's ambassadors today to register "strong protest" in connection with a row over the execution of an Islamist leader in Bangladesh this week, both sides said in statements.
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Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan Condemns Execution Of Bangladesh Jamaat-E-Islami Leader Motiur Rahman Nizami
Turkey's president strongly condemned the execution of an Islamist party leader in Bangladesh.
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Clashes In Bangladesh After Islamist Leader's Hanging
Clashes erupted in Bangladesh today after the execution of a top Islamist leader, heightening tension in a country reeling from a string of killings of secular and liberal activists.
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5 Questions As Bangladesh Hangs Top Islamist Leader Motiur Rahman Nizami
Bangladesh on Tuesday executed the chief of its main Islamist party for atrocities committed during the country's 1971 independence war with Pakistan.
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Bangladesh Executes Top Islamist Leader For War Crimes: Minister
Bangladesh on Tuesday executed the leader of the country's largest Islamist party for war crimes, officials said, a move set to exacerbate tensions in the volatile Muslim-majority nation.
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Bangladesh Sufi Muslim Killed In Suspected Islamist Attack: Police
A local Sufi Muslim leader has been found hacked to death in Bangladesh in a suspected Islamist killing, police said Saturday, two weeks after the ISIS claimed the murder of a liberal professor in the same northwestern district.
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Khaleda Zia Issues Rare Rebuke Of Hindu Priest's Killing
The leader of Bangladesh's biggest opposition party on Tuesday issued a rare condemnation of a recent Islamist killing, a sign the party may be trying to avoid accusations that it is sympathetic to the Islamists as violence increases.
