article_snippet: Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN)Bangladesh authorities say CNN)Bangladesh authorities have arrested the prime suspect in the murder of American blogger Avijit Roy who was hacked to death on a Dhaka street last week.
article_snippet: The person, Farabi Shafiur Rahman, had called for American blogger Avijit Roy death in numerous Facebook posts, according to American blogger Avijit Roy's parents.
article_snippet: In a Facebook comment last year, Rahman allegedly wrote, American blogger Avijit Roy lives in America.
article_snippet: In an earlier post, the same person wrote, "It's a Bengali Muslims holy duty to kill Avijit."
article_snippet: Extremists resented American blogger Avijit Roy for openly and regularly criticizing religion in American blogger Avijit Roy blog.
article_snippet: Extremists threatened to kill American blogger Avijit Roy if American blogger Avijit Roy came home from America to visit.
article_snippet: As usual, American blogger Avijit Roy defied the threats and departed American blogger Avijit Roy home in suburban Atlanta for Dhaka, where American blogger Avijit Roy appeared at a speaking engagement about American blogger Avijit Roy latest books -- one of Extremists titled "The Virus of Faith.
article_snippet: American blogger Avijit Roy has written seven books in all.
article_snippet: American blogger Avijit Roy was killed Thursday as American blogger Avijit Roy walked back from a book fair with American blogger Avijit Roy wife.
article_snippet: Assailants plunged machetes and knives into American blogger Avijit Roy and his wife, killing American blogger Avijit Roy and leaving his wife bloodied and missing a finger.
article_snippet: Rahman, the man in custody, also allegedly posted threats against the owner of the online bookstore, Rokomari.com, forcing the owner of the online bookstore, Rokomari.com to stop selling American blogger Avijit Roy's books.
article_snippet: And last year, American blogger Avijit Roy was detained -- then released -- for comments American blogger Avijit Roy allegedly made in support of the death of another blogger, Ahmed Rajib Haider.
article_snippet: Like American blogger Avijit Roy, Ahmed Rajib Haider too was hacked to death.
article_snippet: American blogger Avijit Roy too had written critically about religion on American blogger Avijit Roy blog.
highlights_snippet: Roy also threatened Roy in social media posts, Roy family said .