Bangladesh authorities arrest man over atheist blogger's murder
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/02/bangladesh-authorities-arrest-man-atheist-bloggers-murder-avijit-roy
Police say Islamist blogger Farabi Shafiur Rahman is the prime suspect in the death of US man Avijit Roy, who was hacked to death with a machete in Dhaka
Members of Bangladeshs Rapid Action Battalion force escort Farabi Shafiur Rahman. Photograph: Suvra Kanti Das/AP
Agence France-Presse in Dhaka
Monday 2 March 2015 10.47 GMT Last modified on Monday 2 March 2015 13.47 GMT
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 polices 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, Rab spokesman Major Maksudul Alam said.
He is a fundamentalist blogger, the spokesman said, adding that according to primary information Farabi had threatened Roy through Twitter and Facebook. [Roys] family told us that he got threats from Farabi several times, he added.
The American, who earned fame for his blog pieces and for authoring a series of books including the best-selling The Virus of the Faith, was hacked to death with a machete in Dhaka last Thursday.
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