Two sentenced to death over blogger murder in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Dec. 31 (NsNewsWire) — A special tribunal in Bangladesh capital Dhaka has handed death penalty to two and various jail terms to six others for killing a blogger in February 2013, reports Xinhua.
Dhaka‘s Special Trial Tribunal-3 Judge Sayeed Ahmed on Thursday handed down the verdict in presence of seven of the accused including Mufti Jashimuddin Rahmani, chief of the banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team.
One of the death row convict is on the run.
The court also imposed a fine of up to 10,000 taka (some 128 U.S. dollars) on the accused.
Blogger Ahmed Rajib Haidar was hacked to death on Feb. 15, 2013 and his body was brutally mutilated. The brutality also irked protests from various quarters across the country.
He was the first of six bloggers killed so far in the country.  Enditem