{"id":4850,"date":"2015-10-31T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2015-10-31T20:34:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T20:34:23","slug":"holy-cow-another-death-i-would-be-hacked-to-death-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2015\/10\/31\/holy-cow-another-death-i-would-be-hacked-to-death-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy cow, another death: I would be hacked to death, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My goodness. Bangladesh, sort it out. SORT IT OUT! I am a secular publisher and author and blogger. On account of all of that, would I be living in Bangladesh, I too would probably have been attacked. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-34688245\" target=\"_blank\">The BBC&#8217;s Breaking News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story-body__h1\">Bangladeshi secular publisher hacked to death<\/h1>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A Bangladeshi publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in the second attack of its kind on Saturday, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed at his office in the city centre, hours after another publisher and two secular writers were injured in an attack.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/4166\/production\/_86424761_029894552-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr Dipon&#8217;s father said he saw him lying in a pool of blood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They are the latest victims in a series of deadly attacks on secularists since blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death by suspected Islamists in February.<\/p>\n<p>Both publishers published Mr Roy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dipon was found dead at the Jagriti Prokashoni publishing house, in his third-floor office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw him lying upside down and in a massive pool of blood. They slaughtered his neck. He is dead,&#8221; his father, the writer Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq, said, quoted by AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, armed men burst into the offices of publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\">\n<figure style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/127DE\/production\/_86424757_028520053-1.jpg\" alt=\"Women protest against bloggers' deaths - 11 August\" width=\"498\" height=\"280\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image copyrightAP The bloggers&#8217; deaths have raised passions in Bangladesh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>They stabbed Mr Tutul and two writers who were with him, locked them in an office and fled the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The three men were rushed to hospital, and at least one of them is in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Roy, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin and critic of radical Islamism, was murdered in February. His wife and fellow blogger Bonya Ahmed was badly injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Three other bloggers have since been killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My goodness. Bangladesh, sort it out. SORT IT OUT! I am a secular publisher and author and blogger. On account&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1508,1054,251],"tags":[619,1793,900],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremism","category-featured","category-islam","tag-bangladesh","tag-islamism","tag-religious-extremism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}