(WiPC/IFEX) – The WiPC of International PEN strongly condemns the 27 February 2004 attack on leading Bangladeshi writer and lecturer Humayun Azad by unidentified assailants. The attack is believed to be in connection with the publication of his recent novel “Pak Sar Zamin Saad Baad”, a story based on religious groups in Bangladesh that collaborated […]
(WiPC/IFEX) – The WiPC of International PEN strongly condemns the 27 February 2004 attack on leading Bangladeshi writer and lecturer Humayun Azad by unidentified assailants. The attack is believed to be in connection with the publication of his recent novel “Pak Sar Zamin Saad Baad”, a story based on religious groups in Bangladesh that collaborated with the Pakistani army during the 1971 independence war. Azad remains critically ill in a coma following the attack, and his family is reportedly continuing to receive threats in connection with the attack.
