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By Shafiq Alam, Agence France Presse, 1 hour ago
DHAKA — Hundreds of thousands of Islamists demanding a new blasphemy law on Sunday blocked highways and fought running battles with police, leaving 10 people dead and hundreds injured in the Bangladeshi capital.
Chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is greatest!") and "One point, One demand: Atheists must be hanged", activists from the hardline Hefajat-e-Islam marched along at least six highways, blocking transport between Dhaka and other cities.
Police said about 200,000 people had marched to central Dhaka, where fierce clashes erupted between thousands of rock-throwing protesters and security officials, with police beating back demonstrators with batons.
"At least 100,000 protesters," blocked the road at Tongi town, which connects Dhaka with the northern region, local police chief Ismail Hossain told AFP [....]
The rally was the latest in a series of mass actions by Hefajat, unusual in Bangladesh because of the large numbers of people taking part. Last month hundreds of thousands of Hefajat activists demanding a blasphemy law gathered in Dhaka, in what experts said was the largest political rally in decades [....]
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Here the target is more specific, "atheist bloggers":
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 2:21pm