Sentences with phrase «humanist blogger»

The Bangladeshi humanist blogger and author Ananta Bijoy Das has been hacked to death in Sylhet by four masked men wielding machetes and cleavers.

And the humanist blogger Brendan O'Neill drew attention to the real motivation of some of his fellow atheists:

I haven't been following this blog for very long but another Humanist blogger turned me onto it, and I've really enjoyed it.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has reacted with shock at the news, and alarm at the continued lack of care by both the Bangladeshi authorities who have failed to protect the humanist bloggers and fact that he was unable to find asylum in Europe.

«The UK has a duty of conscience to urge this Commonwealth member, with which we have such strong links, to restore freedom and the rule of law and to protect its humanist bloggers.»

Not exact matches

In Pakistan, multiple humanists have been sentenced to death for blasphemy, and a number of bloggers were «forcibly disappeared» by the state.

The initiative was conceived by science teacher and blogger Ian Horsewell, and is supported the British Humanist Association.

Making the award, Alom Shaha, a trustee of the British Humanist Association and author of The Young Atheist's Handbook, commented «This award is for al those bloggers who would not retreat; it is for those who were arrested and detained on grossly unfair charges».

In 2014 the BHA awarded the bloggers the Free Expression Award at the World Humanist Congress in Oxford, the theme of which was freedom of speech and expression; Mohiuddin collected the award on behalf of his fellow bloggers.

Ahead of her first public address following the brutal murder of her husband at the hands of Islamic extremists, Bangladeshi blogger Bonya Ahmed has called on the UK Government to do more in tackling extremism at home and to put pressure on international governments to tackle the growing persecution of humanists and the non-religious internationally.