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Avijit Roy

Avijit Roy (12 September 1972-26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi-American critic and columnist who fought for freedom of expression, fighting against the government's imprisonment of atheist bloggers and their censorship of the press.

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Avijit Roy was born on 12 September 1972, the son of physics professor Ajoy Roy. Roy studied at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, earning a master's and doctoral degree in biomedical engineering from the National University of Singapore. Roy became an IT engineer before becoming a blogger and columnist, one of the founders of the Mukto-Mona blog. Roy was one of the moderators, and he was opposed to Islamism, censorship, and the imprisonment of atheist bloggers, and he received death threats as a result of his activism. On 26 February 2015, Roy visited the Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka with his wife, but at 8:30 PM they were pulled out of their bicycle-drawn rickshaw and were attacked by the assailants. His wife was wounded in the face and badly scarred, and Roy was hacked to death. Ansar Bangla-7 claimed responsibility for his murder.

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