Avijit Roy
Avijit Roy (; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) was a
Bangladeshi-American engineer,
online activist, writer, and blogger known for creating and administrating the
Mukto-Mona, an Internet blogging community for Bangladeshi
freethinkers,
rationalists,
skeptics,
atheists, and
humanists. Roy was an advocate of free expression in
Bangladesh and coordinated
international protests against government censorship and imprisonment of atheist bloggers. He was killed by
machete-wielding assailants in
Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26 February 2015; the Islamic militant organization
Ansarullah Bangla Team claimed responsibility for the attack.
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