The police have arrested two brothers for their suspected involvement with the brutal murder of Mukto-Mona blogger Ananta Bijoy Das.
They are Mannan Rahi and his brother Mohaymen Roman.
Abdullah-hel-Baki, Special Superintendent of Police (CID) confirmed the arrests to the Dhaka Tribune.
The suspected killers were arrested from the district's Kanaigath upazila on Friday afternoon, months after the freethinker-blogger was hacked to death by masked assailants in Subid Bazar area of the city.
Further detail in this regard would be disclosed in a press briefing at the conference room of SMP around 9pm, said Sylhet Metropolitan Police Assistant Deputy Commissioner (Media) Rohmot Ullah.
Earlier, a photojournalist was arrested for his suspected involvement with the killing.
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Ananta Bijoy Dash was hacked to death by men armed with machetes when leaving his home for work in Sylhet town on May 12.
Ananta's elder brother Ratneshwar Das filed a case over the murder on that night.
Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed responsibility for the brutal murder of Ananta.
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Ananta was the editor of the science-based Magazine Jukti, and he regularly contributed to the Mukto-Mona blog whose founder Avijit Roy was slain on February 26.
Ananta also received the Mukto-Mona Rationalist Award in 2006. He wrote several books including Parthib, 2001 (co-authored with Saikat Chowdhury), Darwin: Ekhush Shatake Prasongikota Ebong Bhabna, Soviet Union-E Bigyan O Biplob: Lisenko Odday etc.
Evolution was one of the central themes of many of his articles. In his blogs, he was also critical of the fundamentalists' politics.
