Noted writer Hasan Azizul Haque gets death threat

Star Online Report

Unknown caller threatened noted writer Prof Hasan Azizul Haque with death over phone this afternoon.

The telephone call came around 4:30pm today, five days into the similar threat to Prof Emeritus Anisuzzaman.

"The caller told me: 'You can't continue like this. You have to change. Otherwise, dire consequence waits for you," Prof Haque, a teacher of Philosophy at Rajshahi University, told our RU correspondent.

The number of the caller did not show during the call, he added.

"As I asked him why I should change my way of life, the caller asked me to remain prepared [for dire consequence]."

Earlier on November 10, country's eminent intellectual Prof Anisuzzaman was threatened with death via a text message. The text message came from mobile No. 01738725815.