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Activists of the radical Islamist party Hefajat-e-Islam in Bangladesh demanding capital punishment for a group of bloggers in 2013.

Who just killed the man some called ‘the Harvey Milk of Bangladesh’?

April 27, 2016Justice

Men wielding machetes hacked to death the founder of the only LGBT magazine in Bangladesh on Monday.

Author Laila Lalami was born in Rabat, Morocco.

A Moroccan-American author embraces the ‘gray zone,’ where secular and faithful coexist

November 24, 2015Conflict

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