BS in mechanical engineering; MS and PhD in biomedical engineering
Alma mater
BUET (BS) National University of Singapore (MS, PhD)
Occupation(s)
Engineer, blogger, writer
Years active
2001-2015[2]
Known for
Blogging in Bangladesh
Notable work
New Atheism, science, anarchism and religion, homosexuality[3]
Spouse
Rafida Ahmed Bonya
Children
Trisha Ahmed[4]
Parent(s)
Ajoy Roy (father) Shefali Roy (mother)[5]
Website
home.muktomona.com
Avijit Roy (Bengali: অভিজিৎ রায়; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015)[6] was a Bangladeshi-American engineer, online activist, writer, and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona, an Internet blogging community for Bangladeshi freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists, and humanists.[7] Roy was an advocate of free expression in Bangladesh and coordinated international protests against government censorship and imprisonment of atheist bloggers. He was killed by machete-wielding assailants in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26 February 2015; the Islamic militant organization Ansarullah Bangla Team claimed responsibility for the attack.[8][9]
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^"Obituary: US-Bangladesh writer Avijit Roy". BBC News. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
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^শেষ শ্রদ্ধার পর অভিজিতের মরদেহ বাসায়. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
^"Obituary: US-Bangladesh writer Avijit Roy". BBC News. 27 February 2015.
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^"Ansar Bangla-7 claims Avijit killing responsibility". Prothom Alo. Transcom Group. 27 February 2015. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
^"Assailants hack to death writer Avijit Roy, wife injured". bdnews24.com. Dhaka. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
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science from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Ahmed met her husband, AvijitRoy, through their writing on Mukto-Mona, the first online platform for Bengali...
Guardian as "pathetic"; while Trisha Ahmed, the stepdaughter of slain AvijitRoy, responded that "Bangladesh is powerless; it's corrupt, there is no law...
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2010. Retrieved 6 April 2009. Ghosh, Avijit (19 August 2008). "Kashmir needs freedom from India: Arundhati Roy". The Times of India. Archived from the...
also claimed responsibility for the murder of three atheist bloggers, AvijitRoy, Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, and Ananta Bijoy Das, and murder of Rajshahi University...
self-censure after the Attacks on secularists in Bangladesh. Wife of AvijitRoy had accused Bangladesh Police of Inactivity during the attack on her husband...
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2011. Retrieved December 5, 2013. "Joan Baez and our Liberation War AvijitRoy". April 7, 2014. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Words and...
professor Sarah Barringer Gordon states that they are "rarely enforced". AvijitRoy Charlie Hebdo Civil disobedience Narendra Dabholkar Worldwide Protests...
October 2013. Chatterjee, Garga (4 March 2015). "The unholy killings of AvijitRoy and Govind Pansare". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 9 March 2015....
– Bangladeshi-American author, humanist activist and blogger, wife of AvijitRoy; hacked to death after receiving threats related to his promotion of secular...
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October 2013. Chatterjee, Garga (4 March 2015). "The unholy killings of AvijitRoy and Govind Pansare". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 9 March 2015....
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/CG/CG03800.pdf William Schneider, AvijitRoy, John Hartung, Jonathan Shao, Ron Brlansky (December 2015) Citrus blight...
entrepreneurship, and fashion magazines. Notable bloggers from Bangladesh include AvijitRoy, Asif Mohiuddin, Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury, Ahmed Rajib Haider, Bonya Ahmed...
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