Agency Video, Dhaka, 7 April 2013

A video featuring how Bangladesh Islamists rallied demanding death penalty to atheist bloggers who “defamed Islam.”

This week four online writers were arrested on charges of hurting religious sentiment through their Internet writings against Islam.

Under the country’s cyber laws, a blogger or Internet writer can face up to ten years in jail for defaming a religion.

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