Azad’s father, Humayun Azad, was a prominent atheist writer and poet. Militants slashed his face at a book fair in 2004. He was left horribly disfigured and passed away several months later.

A court in Bangladesh has sentenced four people to death for the murder of prominent writer and academic Humayun Azad in 2004. Azad, 56, was hacked with cleavers by the members of Jama’atul ...

Although the brutal attack on writer Humayun Azad was an act of extremist militancy, soon after the incident police tried to frame the political opponents of the then BNP-Jamaat coalition ...

To uphold and highlight the works and philosophies of writer-poet- philologist Professor Humayun Azad, an organisation named 'Humayun Azad Prattay Parishad' officially announced its formation on ...

Nothing is to be seen after [charges against Sayedee] were dropped,” said Manjur Kabir, brother of Azad and plaintiff of the case. “I'm not in a position to feel happy or have regrets.

Humayun Azad is well known for his pithy and barbed character as well as for his controversial writings. Azad was threatened by hardliners for criticizing religious fundamentalism. On February 27, ...

Dhaka, Aug 12 (BDNEWS) – The second anniversary of death of unconventional writer Dr Humayun Azad was observed Saturday. Students of Bengali Department of Dhaka University brought out a ...

The then top leaders of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) had ordered the assassination of Humayun Azad, a multidimensional writer and Dhaka University professor. Upon ...

A Bangladesh court sentenced four extremists to hang on Wednesday for their fatal machete attack on a celebrated writer, in a case that took nearly two decades to reach a verdict. The men brutally ...

A local local court here in Bangladesh handed down death penalties on Wednesday to four militants belonging to a banned Islamist group for murdering writer and Dhaka University professor Humayun Azad ...