The court’s ruling to ban the books, “Grandma’s Dictum” and “Dia Arefin,” – both works of non-fiction – and to order them removed them from stalls at the Ekushey Book Fair occurred on the fifth anniversary of the murder of U.S.-Bangladeshi secular blogger and writer Avijit Roy. He was killed in a machete-attack by Muslim zealots as he was leaving the literary festival
An independent U.S. watchdog group labeled sixteen nations Monday as “countries of particular concern” for engaging in “systematic, ongoing, egregious violations” of religious freedom. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom cited China