17. Zone of Silence
By Robert Mahoney
Rafida Ahmed lost her thumb during an attack by extremists that killed her husband, blogger Avijit Roy, in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka.
(Reuters)
Journalist Avijit Roy founded the blog Mukto-Mona, or Free Thinker, as a forum for free expression and ideas that challenged the growing religious intolerance in his native Bangladesh. His blog for intellectual freedom cost him his life.
The U.S.-Bangladeshi blogger and his wife were hacked and stabbed by suspected Islamist extremist assailants as they left a book fair in the capital, Dhaka, in 2015. Roy died; his wife was critically injured.
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