Last month, the wife of a Bangladeshi pastor was gang-raped by Muslims who ambushed the couple outside their home in Gopalganj district (click here for the details). According to a February 19 report from Compass Direct, local Muslims have threatened Pastor Shankar Hazra (55) and his wife Depali (45) with violence in an attempt to force them to withdraw their charges of robbery and rape. Local believers and human rights activists believe that Muslims paid a doctor to falsify a medical report which alleged that there was no evidence that Depali was raped.

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