In mid-September, the PEN America Centre hosted an event in Brooklyn commemorating four Bangladeshi bloggers who were slain by Islamic extremists for condemning fundamentalism. A week before the event, speakers Farah Mehreen Ahmed and Tanwi Nandini Islam began receiving friend requests on Facebook. They came from Bangladeshi men belonging to the Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of the banned Islamic fundamental party, the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. In the past, members of the student wing were convicted by the International Crimes Tribunal for killing Bengali intellectuals.