Avijit Roy
| Avijit Roy | |
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Roy in 2012
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| Native name | অভিজিৎ রায় |
| Born |
12 September 1972 Bangladesh |
| Died | 26 February 2015 (aged 42) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Occupation | Critic, columnist, IT engineer |
| Language | Bengali, English |
| Nationality | American, Bangladeshi |
| Education | PhD in Biomedical Engineering |
| Alma mater | BUET, National University of Singapore |
| Genre | New Atheism, Science, Anarchism |
| Spouse | Rafida Ahmed Bonya |
| Children | Trisha Ahmed |
| Relatives |
Ajoy Roy (father) Shefali Roy (mother) |
| Website | |
| mukto-mona |
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Avijit Roy (Bengali: অভিজিৎ রায়; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi-American online activist, writer and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona, an Internet community for freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists and humanists of mainly Bengali and other South Asian descent. Roy was an advocate of free expression in Bangladesh, coordinating international protests against government censorship and imprisonment of atheist bloggers. He was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26 February 2015; Islamic militant organization Ansarullah Bangla Team claimed responsibility for the attack.
His father, Ajoy Roy, was a professor of physics at University of Dhaka who received the Ekushey Padak award. Avijit earned a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from BUET. He earned a master's and doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from National University of Singapore.
In 2006, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia and worked as a software engineer. Roy published eight books in Bengali.
Roy was the founder of the Bangladeshi Mukto-Mona (freethinkers) website which was one of the nominees of The Bobs (Best of Blogs) Award in the Best of Online Activism category. The site published death threats that author Humayun Azad had received before he was assassinated. Mukto-Mona began as a Yahoo group in May 2001, but became a website in 2002.
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