Is this the monster who killed blogger Avijit Roy?

March 02, 2015 17:39

Bangladeshi authorities have arrested a radical Islamist over the murder last week of an atheist US blogger, accusing him of being behind earlier death threats on social media.

A spokesman for the police's elite Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) said Farabi Shafiur Rahman had been arrested at a bus station in the capital, Dhaka, over the gruesome killing of Avijit Roy. "He is the main suspect,' a Rab spokesperson said. Read more

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