Avijit Roy
Prof Ajoy Roy passes away
Renowned Professor Ajoy Roy, father of slain blogger Avijit Roy, has passed away.
Charge sheet of Avijit murder case next month
The charge sheet in blogger Avijit Roy murder case will be submitted next month, according to a high police official.
Avijit Murder: Suspect gives confessional statement
A suspect in blogger Avijit Roy murder case yesterday confessed before a Dhaka court that he was among four Ansar Al Islam operatives who did a recce of the killing spot near TSC of Dhaka University five to six days before the murder.
CCTV footage shows ‘killer’ apparently following Avijit: Cops
Prime suspect in bloggers -- Avijit Roy and Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy – killing case, who was killed in an alleged gunfight today, is seen in CCTV footage when blogger Avijit Roy was killed last year.
Avijit’s father demands IGP’s resignation
Ajoy Roy, father of slain blogger and writer Avijit Roy, demands resignation of the inspector general of police as “he failed to protect people”.
Dad was killed for having an opinion: Avijit’s daughter
On the first death anniversary of slain Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy, his stepdaughter Trisha Ahmed recounts the father she remembers and the attack on her parents she is trying to forget.
Cops claim identifying 3 killers of blogger Avijit Roy
Police claim to have identified three persons “who directly took part” in the killing of secular writer and blogger Avijit Roy last year. The three are members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, according to cops.
US hopes for breakthrough in Avijit murder probe
The United States envoy hopes to see a ‘breakthrough’ in the ongoing investigation into the murder case of Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy saying the ‘real culprits’ will hopefully be netted.
Avijit murder: FBI reports soon
Examination of the 11 evidence, which were collected from the crime scene of blogger Avijit murder and sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), have been completed, Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said today.
Blogger killings: 'Mastermind' held in Dhaka
Law enforcers claim to have arrested three militants of Ansarullah Bangla Team from Dhaka including the mastermind of Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy killings.
Opinion: Is this rule of law?
Human rights leaders are blaming the long pervasive culture of impunity as one of the major reasons for the gruesome killings of children and bloggers.
DB takes over Niloy murder probe
DB takes over charge of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy’s murder probe from police, three days after the killing.
Failure to stop bloggers' killers frustrates people
With the fifth murder of a blogger spreading a wave of frustration among the general public, The Daily Star talked to people on the Dhaka University campus today to know what they were thinking about the situation.
Opinion: Niloy murder shows the hole again
The government’s image as a secular, progressive and anti-militant political force has been greatly damaged by such killings and the government should look at itself in the mirror to see if this is the image it is happy with.
Yet another blogger killed
Yet another online activist is stabbed to death by unknown assailants at his East Goran residence in Dhaka.
Taslima Nasreen flees to US after death threats
Award winning Bangladeshi writer and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen flees from India to the US after she was named as an al-Qaeda murder target
Taslima Nasreen relocated to US amid death threats from Islamic extremists
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen moved to United States by the Center for Inquiry (CFI), New York-based advocacy group, which says that she received death threats, reports The Huffington Post.
Bloggers die young (video)
It is hard to believe that a group of writers are in mortal danger in the country now just for expressing their opinions. But that’s the truth.
UN experts condemn recent killings of bloggers in Bangladesh
Condemning recent killings of bloggers in Bangladesh, UN human rights experts warn that it is an alarming signal of deterioration of the space for freedom of expression.