Avijit Roy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Avijit Roy

Bangladeshi-American engineer, blogger and activist

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1972

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Date of Death: 26-Feb-2015

Profession: writer, mechanical engineer, blogger, activist, biomedical engineer

Nationality: United States, Bangladesh

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Avijit Roy (Bengali: ?????? ????; 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.