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SFI and DYFI stages protest rally condemning the death of Bangladeshi writer Avijit Roy
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SFI and DYFI stages protest rally condemning the death of Bangladeshi writer Avijit Roy
PHOTO : DYFI and SFI jointly staged rally at Agartala protesting the death of writer Abhijeet Ray at Bangladesh. TIWN Pic Mar 1

AGARTALA, March 1 (TIWN): The left backed Democratic youth Federation of India (DYFI) and the Student Federation of India (SFI) today jointly staged a rally across the capital city Agartala in protest at the murder of a prominent secular American blogger of Bangladeshi origin Avijit Roy at Bangladesh who was hacked to death with machetes after he allegedly received threats from Islamists.

Avijit Roy and his wife, Rafida Ahmed, were attacked on a crowded pavement as they were returning from a book fair at Dhaka University. Ahmed, who is also a blogger, lost a finger and remains under treatment at the Square hospital in Dhaka.

The attack took place at about 8.45pm on Thursday evening when a group of men ambushed the couple as they walked toward a roadside tea stall, with at least two of the attackers hitting them with meat cleavers. The attackers then ran off into the crowds. Two blood-stained cleavers were found after the attack.

Roy, founder of the Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog, which featured articles on scientific reasoning and religion, had been receiving threats for some time. A social networking site posting this month said that he would be killed once he arrived in the capital. The couple arrived in Dhaka on 15 February.

However, the SFI and DYFI will also stage a sit in demonstration in protest of the murder of the blogger Avijit Roy. 

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