Avijit Roy
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Avijit Roy (12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi-American online activist, writer and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona, an Internet community for freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists and humanists of mainly Bengali and other South Asian descent. Roy was an advocate of free expression in Bangladesh, coordinating international protests against government censorship and imprisonment of atheist bloggers. He was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26 February 2015; Islamic militant organization Ansarullah Bangla Team claimed responsibility for the attack.
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See also
- Attacks on secularists in Bangladesh
- Humayun Azad
- Murder of Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi
- Political repression of cyber-dissidents
- List of journalists killed in Bangladesh
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