In 2015, a celebrated secularist writer and ally of CFI, Avijit Roy, was attacked at a book fair in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by a gang of Islamic extremists who hacked him to death with machetes and badly injured his wife, Bonya Ahmed. That horrific event began a slew of similar killings over the next few years and spurred CFI to establish the Secular Rescue program, which has now assisted over 200 threatened and persecuted secular writers and activists in countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Iraq. Learn more about Secular Rescue. This week, almost exactly six years after the attack in Dhaka, a court in Bangladesh found five men guilty of the murder of Avijit Roy, and have been sentenced them to death. Bonya Ahmed, however, says she was never contacted about the trial or asked to testify. She posted on Facebook, “Simply prosecuting a few foot-soldiers—and ignoring the rise and roots of extremism—does not mean justice for Avi’s death.”