DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested a suspected Islamist for sending death threats to prominent secular academics, as the country reels from rising extremist violence, officers said.
Police accuse Abdul Haque, a former teacher at an Islamic seminary, of threatening noted academics and writers in the name of the Islamic State (IS) group and local banned outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT).
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