Reading Time: 3 minutes Yet another injustice against freethought has taken place in Bangladesh, where two men sentenced to death for murdering an atheist author and his publisher were able to escape police custody. The men were members of a terrorist group called Ansarullah Bangla Team (“Helpers of Allah”). In 2015, atheist author Dr. Avijit Roy was hacked to death […]
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Bangladeshi Court Sentences 8 Men to Death for Murdering Atheist Book Publisher
Reading Time: 3 minutes Six years after the publisher’s assassination, his assailants have finally been sentenced.
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Bangladeshi Actress Apologizes After Making Remarks Suggesting She’s an Atheist
Reading Time: < 1 minute Safa Kabir realized what happens to vocal atheists in Bangladesh. Now she’s apologizing.
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Bangladeshi Police Finally Charge Six Men With Hacking Death of Atheist Author
Reading Time: 2 minutes Years after the brutal death of Dr. Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi police are finally charging people with the crime.
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She Survived a 2015 Attack by Islamic Terrorists; Her Atheist Husband Did Not
Reading Time: < 1 minute You’ll want to give Bonya Ahmed a standing ovation at the end of this talk.
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Atheist Poet and Publisher Shahzahan Bachchu Shot Dead in Bangladesh
Reading Time: 3 minutes Once again, an open atheist has been slaughtered in Bangladesh.
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Two Islamic Terrorists Will Be Hanged for Slaughter of Bangladeshi Professor
Reading Time: 2 minutes Two years after his murder, there’s finally some justice for Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique.
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Blasphemy Charges Filed Against Defiant Egyptian Atheist; Arrest May Be Imminent
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sherif Gaber says he may be arrested in the next couple of days for his controversial YouTube videos.
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Bangladeshi Critic of Religious Fundamentalism Stabbed in Head Before Lecture
Reading Time: 2 minutes Unless the Bangladeshi government promotes secularism over religious fundamentalism, these attacks will never stop.
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This Is What It Looked Like When an Atheist Writer Was Butchered in Bangladesh
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jiban Ahmed was a photographer who happened to be present when Dr. Avijit Roy was slaughtered by religious terrorists.
On the third anniversary of Roy’s death, Ahmed shared his memory of what happened that day.