{"id":50421,"date":"2022-11-21T21:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/21\/two-islamist-killers-of-us-blogger-avijit-roy-escape-from-bangladesh-court"},"modified":"2022-11-21T21:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:33:45","slug":"us-bloggers-killers-escape-on-motorbikes-from-bangladeshi-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50421","title":{"rendered":"US blogger\u2019s killers escape on motorbikes from Bangladeshi court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men on death row for murder of secular writer snatched by bikers who sprayed police with chemical<\/p>\n<p>Two Islamist militants who were on death row in Bangladesh for the killing of a US blogger critical of fundamentalist Islam have made a dramatic escape on motorbikes while being escorted to a court hearing in the capital, Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>The two men were among those convicted of the murder of Avijit Roy, an American-Bangladeshi writer and blogger who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/feb\/27\/american-atheist-blogger-hacked-to-death-in-bangladesh\">hacked to death with machetes<\/a> in the streets of Dhaka in 2015.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/21\/two-islamist-killers-of-us-blogger-avijit-roy-escape-from-bangladesh-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men on death row for murder of secular writer snatched by bikers who sprayed police with chemicalTwo Islamist militants who were on death row in Bangladesh for the killing of a US blogger critical of fundamentalist Islam have made a dramatic escape on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50422,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50421\/revisions\/50422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}