Free Speech in Bangladesh
Has a climate of growing religious conservatism and intolerance In Bangladesh put all free thinkers at risk?
US-Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy has been hacked to death as he walked back from a book fair with his wife.
Mr Roy is the second Bangladeshi blogger to be murdered in two years and the fourth writer attacked in a decade.
So what’s going on in Bangladesh? Why have atheists become such targets? Has a climate of growing religious conservatism and intolerance put all free thinkers are at risk? And if so, what should the government be doing to crack down on Islamist extremists?
World Have Your Say gets reaction to the murder from people in Bangladesh as well as friends and colleagues of Avijit Roy.
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- Fri 27 Feb 201518:05GMTBBC World Service Online
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