Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American blogger and writer, was killed in Bangladesh on Thursday. Roy and his wife Rafida Ahmed Banna, also a blogger, were invited to a book fair at Dhaka University. While returning from the same book fair, two attackers stopped their rickshaw near the Teacher-Student Centre of the University around 9:30 pm. The…… Read More
A Bangladeshi-American blogger was killed in a brutal attack on Friday. CNN’s Ravi Agrawal has the latest.… Read More
Blogging is a dangerous business in Bangladesh. Four prominent secular bloggers have been brutally murdered this year and a publisher linked to one of them was recently slashed to death. Police blame religious hardliners for the killings, and there are fears more attacks could follow. But it’s not just hardliners who are causing concern. The…… Read More
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Bangladesh to denounce the murder of a prominent Bangladesh-born American blogger Avijit Roy. Students, activists and journalists gathered at Dhaka University on Friday to demand quick police action, a day after the attack on Avijit Roy and his wife Rafida Ahmed, who remains in critical condition. Al Jazeera’s Natasha Ghoneim…… Read More