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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.

Notable bloggers

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

Violence against bloggers

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

References

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  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. 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.