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Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi-American blogger, was hacked to death in Bangladesh

Bangladesh's anti-terrorism unit said it had arrested on March 2, 2015 the main suspect in the killing of a U.S. blogger who was hacked to death in Dhaka on Feb. 27, 2015 in the latest attack on critics of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation.

Forces from the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Farabi Shafiur Rahman, who was previously jailed for his ties to the extremist Hizbut Tahrir Islamist group, at a bus stop in Dhaka, a RAB spokesman told reporters.

The spokesman said Farabi had confessed to threatening to kill blogger Avijit Roy. Farabi was still being interrogated.

Roy, an engineer of Bangladeshi origin, was killed by machete-wielding assailants on Feb. 27, 2015, while returning from a book fair. His wife and fellow blogger Rafida Ahmed suffered head injuries and lost a finger. (Reuters)


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