Bangladesh police have arrested the main suspect in the murders of a gay magazine editor and a secular blogger who were brutally killed by militants for writing against radical Islamists in the Muslim majority country.
A police spokesman said today, a joint team of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit and Detective Branch of Police arrested Rashidun Nabi in Sayedabad area in the capital last night.
Nabi is the main suspect in the murder case of Julhash Mannan, the editor of ‘Roopban’ – the only magazine in Bangladesh advocating gay rights, and blogger Nazimuddin Samad who were killed in April.
Police claimed that Nabi is an operative of Ansar al Islam or Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), which is said to be ideologically inclined to al-Qaeda. Nabi has been sent on three-day remand by Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate.