Internet responds to blogger Avijit Roy's murder

February 28, 2015 17:48

Fellow bloggers have started responding to the brutal murder of Avijit Roy.

Roy, an American blogger of Bangladeshi origin, was known for his writing against religious fundamentalism, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Dhaka, according to the police.

Avijit Roy, 40, was attacked with machetes when he was returning from a book fair at Dhaka University late on Thursday night along with his wife Rafida Ahmed.

Avajit, founder of Mukto-Mona (free mind) blog site which defends liberal secular writing, was in a rickshaw with his wife when two assailants stopped it, dragged them to the footpath and started hacking him, according to eyewitnesses.

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