5 Bangladesh Islamists sentenced to death for writer’s murder


A police van ferries the accused back to jail after the the court sentences five Islamists to death over the murder of blogger-writer Avijit Roy, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, today. – EPA pic, February 16, 2021.

FIVE Islamist extremists were sentenced to death today over the brutal murder of a Bangladeshi-American writer and rights activist six years ago.

Avijit Roy, a prolific blogger and the author of 10 books including the best-selling “Biswasher Virus” (“Virus of Faith”), was hacked to death outside Bangladesh’s largest book fair by machete-wielding extremists in February 2015.


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