Blogging in Bangladesh

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Blogging in Bangladesh is dominated by a community of around 200 blogs. Some personal blogs have been around since the mid-2000s,[ citation needed ] but there are now blogs about self help, cities, science, law, digital marketing, entrepreneurship, and fashion magazines.

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Notable bloggers

Notable bloggers from Bangladesh include Avijit Roy, Asif Mohiuddin, Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury, Ahmed Rajib Haider, Bonya Ahmed, Sunny Sanwar, Shahidul Alam.

Violence against bloggers

Since 2013, some bloggers in Bangladesh have been attacked and killed by Islamic extremists. [1] [2] [3] [4]

References

  1. ↑ Samanth Subramanian (14 December 2015). "The Hit List: The Islamist War on Secular Bloggers in Bangladesh". The New Yorker . Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  2. ↑ Maaz Hussain (1 March 2017). "Bangladesh Criticized for Slow Progress in Blogger Murders". Voice of America. Archived from the original on September 9, 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  3. ↑ Emma Graham-Harrison; Saad Hammadi (11 June 2016). "Inside Bangladesh's killing fields: bloggers and outsiders targeted by fanatics". The Guardian . Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  4. ↑ Ishaan Tharoor (2 May 2016). "These Bangladeshi bloggers were murdered by Islamist extremists. Here are some of their writings". The Washington Post . Retrieved 21 June 2020.


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