Bangladesh protesters demand blasphemy law

Al Jazeera English 2013-04-07

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One person has been killed as hundreds of thousands of people continued protests in Bangladesh to demand that the government introduce an anti-blasphemy law that would include the death penalty for bloggers who insult Islam. Nowsher Khan, a local leader of the Awami League, was killed in Bhanga, a town south west of Dhaka on Saturday, when Hefazat-e-Islami party supporters clashed with Awami League supporters. Al Jazeera's correspondent in Dhaka reports.

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