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Bangladesh: Gay Rights Activist Hacked to Death in Dhaka

HeadlineApr 26, 2016

In Bangladesh, a gay rights activist has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka. Julhas Mannan was the editor of Bangladesh’s only LGBT magazine. He was murdered alongside another man by a group of five or six attackers wielding machetes. The killing comes just days after a university professor was also hacked to death.

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