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Taslima Nasreen
Article published on the 2008-06-16 Latest update 2008-06-16 19:26 TU
Taslima Nasreen
(Photo: DR)
The exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has just spent two years in India. The controversial author is living under the threat of death after a fatwa, or religious decree, was issued against her by hardline Muslims who say her novels are blasphemous. She writes about the experience in a book first published in France, “From my prison”.
Banned from her home country, Bangladesh, Nasreen had hoped to settle in neighbouring India. But Indian politicians afraid of angering more than 140 million Indian Muslims put pressure on her to leave, and kept her locked up in hiding for seven months. That pressure, combined with health problems, finally forced her to leave in March 2008.
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