Assailants attacked Avijit Roy, the founder of the website Mukto-Mona, and his wife Thursday night as they were walking back from a speaking engagement, said Krishna Pada Roy, a deputy commissioner with the Dhaka police.
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“This loss is keenly felt by freethinkers and humanists in South Asia and around the world,” IHEU spokesman Bob Churchill said. “He was a colleague in humanism and a friend to all who respect human rights, freedom, and the light of reason.”
