Bangladesh minorities at risk

Politics is keeping the country's PM from doing more to stop the killing of secular bloggers and liberals.

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, pictured last fall, has blamed the violence on opposition parties, refusing to admit foreign extremist forces are active in her country.United Nations photograph by Rick Bajornas

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 4, 2016

LONDON, U.K.—How’s this for a staunch defence of free speech in a secular state? Earlier this month, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh denounced anyone who criticized religion or expressed their own lack of religious faith in striking terms: “I don't consider such writings as freethin...

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