Altab Ali

Altab Ali
আলতাব আলী
Ali, 1974
Born1953
Died4 May 1978(1978-05-04) (aged 24)
Resting placeSylhet District, Bangladesh
OccupationTextile worker

Altab Ali (Bengali: আলতাব আলী; 24 October 1953 – 4 May 1978) was a Bangladeshi textile worker stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated killing. His death sparked widespread outrage and grassroots action that helped to reduce racism against British Bangladeshis and British Asians in the United Kingdom.