Bangladesh Authorities Arrest Suspect in American Bloggers Murder
Bangladeshi authorities have arrested a primary suspect in the murder of atheist blogger Avijit Roy. Farabi Shafiur Rahman was taken into custody by the Rapid Action Battalion RAB in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, Agence France-Presse reported. He allegedly threatened the victim on social media and spoke to another individual online about killing him. A spokesman for the RAB  the country's elite security force that mainly counters religious insurgency  described Rahman as a "fundamentalist blogger." A source within the agency claimed that its officials had seen messages between Rahman and another person discussing Roy's murder. Roy, a Bangladeshi American living in Atlanta for the past 15 years, founded the Mukto-Mona blog  a collection of liberal writings that drew the ire of many hard-liners in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. The 42-year-old writer was assaulted by two unidentified attackers while returning from a book fair with his wife in Dhaka last week. The assailants hacked him to death with machetes. His wife survived but was grievously injured.