In Brief Nazimuddin Samad, a 28-year-old secular activist and law student at Jagannath University, was killed in Dhaka, Bangladeshi capital, on April 7, 2016. According to the BBC, Samad was attacked at a traffic jam by three men armed with machetes before being shot. Case History Samad was known to have been critical of state religion set in the Bangladeshi Constitution. He once said on Facebook, “Evolution is a scientific truth. Religion and race are [an] invention of the s