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| Police delay charges for 'five assailants' of writer-blogger Avijit Roy | |||
| 2017-02-27 | |||
Two years on, police are still to submit the chargesheet in the murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy. Investigators say they were waiting to arrest the five, who were involved in the assassination of the Bangladeshi American writer, who founded the blog ‘Muktomona’ (free thinkers).
Islamist zealots had been threatening Avijit, a bioengineer and a naturalised US citizen, for his active campaign against Islamist radicals, for quite some time. His father Ajay Roy, a well-known physicist who has taught at the Dhaka University for a long time, started a police case over the incident. A bioengineer and a naturalised US citizen, Avijit Roy founded the the blog ‘Muktomona’ (free thinkers). A bioengineer and a naturalised US citizen, Avijit Roy founded the the blog ‘Muktomona’ (free thinkers). The couple was attacked at the TSC intersection on the Dhaka University campus. The couple was attacked at the TSC intersection on the Dhaka University campus. In the last two years, the Detective Branch (DB) pleaded 15 times to the court for extending the deadline to submit the probe report. Police say they are now clear about the motive and that they have identified the perpetrators. A senior police officer, who is supervising the probe, said they are conducting raids to nab the five assailants.
Since the killing of Avijit, several others, including online activists, writers, publishers, members from the minority communities have been attacked or killed in similar fashion by machete-wielding attackers, targeting the head to ensure immediate death.
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| Posted by:Steve White |