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DHAKA: Five people were sentenced to death on Tuesday over the brutal murder of a Bangladeshi-American writer and rights activist six years ago. Avijit Roy, a prolific blogger and the author of 10 books including the best-selling Biswasher Virus (‘Virus of Faith’), was hacked to death outside Bangladesh’s largest book fair by machete-wielding extremists in February 2015. The murder, part …

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