Avijit Roy
Prof Ajoy Roy passes away
Renowned Professor Ajoy Roy, father of slain blogger Avijit Roy, has passed away.
9 December 2019, 08:17 AM
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.
28 April 2018, 07:39 AM
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.
19 November 2017, 18:00 PM
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.
19 June 2016, 12:42 PM
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”.
7 May 2016, 08:07 AM
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.
27 February 2016, 06:09 AM
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.
25 February 2016, 11:19 AM
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.
16 February 2016, 12:33 PM
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.
15 February 2016, 09:00 AM
Book fair: Cops to provide spl security to writers, bloggers
Law enforcers will provide “special security” to writers, bloggers and visitors at the Ekushey Book Fair if they ask for it, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police says.
31 January 2016, 05:46 AM
Avijit murder: Light was inadequate, cops say
Police say the road in front of Bangla Academy where blogger Avijit Roy was killed last year was not adequately lit.
30 January 2016, 07:52 AM
'Save voices of Bangladeshi free thinkers'
Rafida Ahmed Banya, the widow of Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy, urges the international community to come forward to help save the voices of Bangladeshi journalists, writers, bloggers, and publishers and help them maintain a healthy secular society.
2 December 2015, 08:41 AM
Neither 'isolated' nor tolerable
The politics of manipulating the religion card and the denial of responsibility of the state to ensure citizens' basic rights have put the country in a situation, from where there is no immediate return.
3 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Watch: Paris street temporarily 'renamed' after blogger Avijit
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) temporarily labels the street name in front of Bangladesh Embassy in Paris after slain Bangladeshi-American secular activist and blogger Avijit Roy marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.
3 November 2015, 07:46 AM
CPJ condemns attacks on liberal minds
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Saturday’s separate attacks that killed publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan and injured another publisher Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Tutul.
3 November 2015, 05:43 AM
Opinion: Remedy begins from admitting problem; not denying it
It’s time the government should admit to itself that whatever measures it had taken or not taken to uproot militancy, is not working or working in a very limited way. The government cannot gain anything from false assurance and denial.
1 November 2015, 10:09 AM
Attacks on Avijit’s publishers are isolated incidents: Kamal
A day after the attacks on two publishers of slain blogger Avijit Roy, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says such attacks are isolated incidents and not new in Bangladesh.
1 November 2015, 07:22 AM
I don’t want justice either: Banya
Like the father of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, slain blogger Avijit Roy’s wife Rafida Ahmed Banya does not seek justice for the murders of the bloggers and publishers.
1 November 2015, 05:10 AM
Avijit’s publisher, 2 bloggers hacked in Dhaka
Unknown assailants stab the publisher of slain blogger Avijit Roy along with two bloggers in Dhaka’s Lalmatia area. The injured are attending to treatments at DMCH with wounds to the head. Condition of publisher Tutul and another are said to be grave.
31 October 2015, 10:05 AM
3 Avijit killing suspects remanded again
A Dhaka court places three alleged members of Ansarullah Bangla Team on a fresh three-day remand in connection with the killing of blogger-writer Avijit Roy.
27 August 2015, 13:21 PM