Tahmid Hasib Khan, a 22-year-old University of Toronto student and permanent resident of Canada, has been in custody in Dhaka ever since the July 1 terrorist attack. His family doesn't know why Khan is being held, but they insist he is innocent. Khan had travelled to Dhaka to visit family, with plans to go on to Nepal where he was to begin an internship this week. Khan has been held largely incommunicado by law enforcement in Bangladesh’s capital city, suspected by the police

According to Newsnextbd, four suspected Islamists have been arrested for their suspected involvement in the last month’s murder at Rajshahi University. One of them is Maskawat Hasan Sakib, the commander of the outlawed Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh. He confessed to his involvement in the killing of AFM Rezaul Karim Siddique and was sent to jail. Police believe that the members of the Islamist outfit killed English Professor Siddique on April 23 when he was waiting for a uni

A professor of English was hacked to death and nearly beheaded near his home in northwestern Bangladesh on Saturday, in what the police said they suspected was the latest in a series of targeted killings by Islamist militants. The professor, Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, 61, was attacked by assailants about 60 yards from his home and died at the scene, said Mohammad Shamsuddin, the commissioner of the metropolitan police in the city of Rajshahi. Neighbors said they had heard the vi