{"id":66183,"date":"2015-05-12T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=66183"},"modified":"2016-11-08T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T16:09:43","slug":"index-condemns-murder-of-bangladeshi-secular-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=66183","title":{"rendered":"Index condemns murder of Bangladeshi secular blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Index on Censorship condemns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/bangladesh\/11598826\/Third-secular-blogger-hacked-to-death-in-Bangladesh.html\">the brutal murder of Bangladeshi blogger Ananta Bijoy Das<\/a> &#8212; the third such attack since February.\u00a0AFP reported that attackers wearing masks hacked atheist blogger Das to death with machetes. The murder follows that of fellow atheist Avijit Roy, a blogger who advocated secularism, and who was hacked to death by a knife-wielding mob in Dhaka as he walked back from a book fair in February. Weeks later atheist writer Washiqur Rahman was stabbed to death in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Index CEO Jodie Ginsberg said: \u201cOur sympathies are with the family of Ananta Bijoy Das. Like Avijit Roy and Washiqur Rahman, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2015\/04\/padraig-reidy-sentenced-to-death-for-not-believing-in-god\/\">targeted simply for expressing his own beliefs<\/a>. We are appalled by these deaths and call on Bangladesh and the international community to do more to protect such writers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Index on Censorship condemns the brutal murder of Bangladeshi blogger Ananta Bijoy Das &#8212; the third such attack since February.\u00a0AFP reported that attackers wearing masks hacked atheist blogger Das to death with machetes. The murder follows that of fellow atheist Avijit Roy, a blogger who advocated secularism, and who was hacked to death by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[366,6903,6534],"tags":[7082,6975,7367,6263,7019],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66186,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66183\/revisions\/66186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}