Nazimuddin Samad, 29, a law student who posted pro-atheism comments on social media was murdered last night by at least three men who first hit him with machetes. Then they shot him to make sure he was dead. He was the 7th secular activist who has been killed.
The national Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported that the assailants shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) as they attacked him on a busy road near Dhaka’s Jagannath University, where he was a law student. He regularly wrote against religious extremism on his Facebook page.
In the flines detailing his religious views on Facebook, he stated: “Evolution is a scientific truth. Religion and race are invention of the savage and uncivil people. I have no religion.” Last month, he deactivated his Facebook account on the request of his family who stay in London.
