Bangladesh arrests US blogger murderer
Farabi Shafiur Rahman had been arrested at a bus station in the capital Dhaka
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-03-03 05:16 GMT
Dhaka: Bangladesh authorities announced they had arrested a radical Islamist on Monday over the last week’s machete murder of an atheist American blogger, accusing him of being behind earlier death threats on social media.
A spokesman for the elite Rapid Action Battalion said Farabi Shafiur Rahman had been arrested at a bus station in the capital Dhaka over the gruesome killing of Avijit Roy, describing him as the prime suspect in a crime that triggered international outrage.
“He’s the main suspect,” RAB spokesman Major Maksudul Alam said.“He is a fundamentalist blogger,” the spokesman said, adding that according to “primary information” Farabi had threatened Roy through Twitter and Facebook.