Staff Reporter :
Six Barisal Ganajagoran Mancha activists have received death threat from Islamist militants on Facebook, three days after suspected extremists hacked blogger Niladri Chatterjee alias Niloy to death in the capital. The Facebook account ‘Ansar BD’, issued the threat on Monday with pictures of six men.
They are poet Henry Swapan, sculptor Charu Tuhin, poet Syed Mehedi Hasan, organiser Nazrul Biswas, poet Tuhin Das and Chhatra Union’s Barisal unit General Secretary Pritom Chowdhury, police said.
“There are three anti-Islamic poet & three organizers of blogger. They are the enemy of Islam. We should do what will our aim (sic),” the Ansar BD post read.
Saibal Kanti Chowdhury, Barisal’s Superintendent of Police, said he heard about the Facebook post but no-one lodged any complaint until Tuesday afternoon.
“I’ve spoken to some of them and advised them to lodge police complaints,” he said.
“They’ve been told to inform police immediately if they suspect anyone or feel they are being followed.”
