Friday 27 February 2015

US BANGLADESH BLOGGER HACKED TO DEATH

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Bangladeshi social activists shout slogans during a protest against the killing of US blogger Avijit Roy in Dhaka on February 27 Students and social activists gathered to protest against the blogger's death
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A knife-wielding mob has hacked to death a US-Bangladeshi blogger whose writing on religion had brought threats from Islamist hardliners.
Avijit Roy, an atheist who advocated secularism, was attacked in Dhaka as he walked back from a book fair with his wife, who was hurt in attack.
No-one has been arrested but police say they are investigating a local Islamist group that praised the killing.
Hundreds of students gathered in Dhaka to mourn the blogger's death.
Mr Roy's family say he had received threats after publishing articles promoting secular views, science and social issues on his Bengali-language blog, Mukto-mona, or Free Mind.
The website was inaccessible on Friday.
He defended atheism in a recent Facebook post, calling it "a rational concept to oppose any unscientific and irrational belief".
Shrine to blogger Avijit Roy Tributes have been laid at the scene of the murder
Bangladeshi social activists form a human chain during a protest against the killing of US blogger of Bangladeshi origin, Avijit Roy in Dhaka on February 27, Activists formed a human chain during the protest
Police said a group of men ambushed the couple as they walked toward a roadside tea stall.
At least two of the attackers hit them with meat cleavers, police chief Sirajul Islam told the AP news agency.
The attackers then ran away, disappearing into the crowds.
Two blood-stained cleavers were found after the attack.
The police told the BBC they were investigating a local hardline religious group had praised the killing in an online message.
Death threats against atheist writers and bloggers are nothing new in Bangladesh.
Prominent writer Taslima Nasreen had to leave Bangladesh following death threats from hardline Islamists in the mid-1990s.
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