Bloggers Asif Mohiuddin and late Ahmed Rajib have won Free Expression Award at World Humanist congress in Oxford.
The congress have also awarded Rasel Parvez, Subrata Adhikari Shuvo and Mashiur Rahman Biplob, on Saturday, August 9.
The news was published in the website of the British Humanist Association, the organiser of the congress.
Asif Mohiuddin received award on behalf of the three fellow bloggers, it said.
The award would be shared posthumously with the late Ahmed Rajib Haider, who was hacked to death by a militant group of religious fundamentalists on February 15, 2013, for his online comments about religious fundamentalism, according to the website.
It was also said that Asif had a speech in a session on extreme threats to freedom of expression.
Making the award, Alom Shaha, a trustee of the British Humanist Association commented: “This award is for all those bloggers who would not retreat; it is for those who were arrested and detained on grossly unfair charges.”
In early 2013, Mohiuddin was attacked and brutally stabbed by a group of radical religious fundamentalists. A month later, the Bangladesh government banned his blog and later arrested him along with the three other bloggers on allegation of hurting the religious sentiments.
The organiser, the British Humanist Association, is the national charity promotes a secular state and equal treatment in law and policy of everyone, regardless of religion or belief.
