Avijit Roy

Bangladesh blogger murder: Dhaka court indicts five activists of banned militant outfit

A Dhaka court on Wednesday charged five activists of a banned militant outfit for the 2015 murder of popular blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, who wrote against the Jamaat-e-Islami and radical Islamists.

Secular publisher of atheist writer murdered, three badly wounded in new Bangladesh attacks

The publisher of an atheist writer killed earlier this year by suspected Islamists was hacked to death in Bangladesh Saturday, hours after two secular bloggers and another publisher were also attacked.

Bangladesh police arrest three suspects, including British national, in bloggers' murders

Authorities in Bangladesh said Tuesday that they have arrested three men, including a British citizen, for their involvement in the murders of two secular bloggers

Insult after injury: After Niloy's murder, Bangladeshi cop warns bloggers to observe 'limit'

The Bangladesh Police have asked the country's secular bloggers not to "cross the limit" while writing on religious issues, days after blogger Niloy's killing.

Bangladesh blogger's killing: Police file case against four persons

A murder case has been filed against four suspected Islamist militants in connection with the brutal killing of a secular Bangladeshi blogger who was hacked to death.

Bangladesh blogger's killing: UN raises red flag over 'serious threats to freedom of expression'

The UN on Friday called on Bangladesh to initiate steps for preventing violence against writers and activists in the wake of the killing of a secular blogger in the country.

Dhaka's secular claims gets soaked in blood as another Bangladeshi blogger is killed

Bangladeshi blogger Niloy Chatterjee's murder by five machete-wielding assailants is the fourth such incident this year. This asks questions of the Sheikh Hasina government's capacity to ensure Bangladeshi secularism.

No end to intolerance in Bangladesh: Another blogger hacked to death by masked men

Police say masked men hacked a blogger and author to death near his home in northeastern Bangladesh while he was on his way to his job at a bank.

Who killed the Bangladeshi bloggers? Don't just blame the fanatics

It is easy to point fingers at benighted madrasa students who do not know any better. It is much harder to look in the mirror and ask whether our own belief system and narrow-mindedness could in any way have contributed to the atmosphere of intolerance that allowed for such a crime to be committed.

Second blogger hacked to death by axe weilding assailants in Bangladesh, police nab 2

A blogger was hacked to death by assailants using machetes in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday,