Arrest Made in Hacking Death of Alpharetta Man

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Authorities have arrested a man in connection to the hacking death of an Alpharetta blogger.

Security officials in Bangladesh on Monday arrested Farabi Shafiur Rahman, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

NBC News reports that Rahman was arrested by Rapid Action Battalion, the country’s anti-terrorism unit, at a bus stop in Dhaka.

Rahman allegedly confessed to threatening to kill Alpharetta resident Avijit Roy, 42. He was previously detained for allegedly having ties to the Hizbut Tahrir, an extremist Islamist organization, NBC Said.

Read NBC’s complete report here

Roy, a Bangladesh-born American citizen, was hacked to death Feb. 26 in Dhaka, news reports said. He was ambushed while walking down the street with his wife, Rafida Ahmed Bonna, who was critically injured in the attack while attempting to save her husband.

She suffered several stab wounds and a severed finger and remains hospitalized in serious condition, according to BBC News.

A well known blogger, Roy was known for his vocal opposition to religious extremism. He founded the blog, Mukto-mona, or Free Mind, which focuses on spreading secular opinions in Bangladesh, BBC News said.

BBC News notes Rahman is currently out on bail after he was previously arrested over posts on social media following the 2013 death of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider, who was also vocal about religious extremism.

The BBC’s full report on the incident can also be found here.

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