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Briton among 3 on remand in connection with Bangladesh's blogger killing

Xinhua, September 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Five people, including a British citizen of an outlaw Islamist group, were placed on a seven-day remand Wednesday in connection with anti-Islamist blogger Ananta Bijoy's killing.

Metropolitan Magistrate Shahedul Karim in Sylhet, some 264 km northeast of capital Dhaka, Wednesday also rejected their bail petitions in the Bijoy killing case.

The five including Touhidul Islam, a Briton of Bangladeshi origin who is considered mastermind and a financier of the banned Ansarullah Bangla Team, are also accused of the murder of another writer-blogger Avijit Roy, an American of Bangladeshi origin, at Dhaka University on Feb. 26 this year.

Ananta Bijoy was hacked to death on May 12 in Sylhet.

Bijoy's assassination came just about a month after three men killed blogger Washiqur Rahman Babu near his home in Dhaka in the same fashion on March 30. Endi