Taslima leaves India for Europe
NEW DELHI: Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has left India for Europe after being hounded into hiding by death threats from militants, her publisher and friends told AFP on Wednesday.
“Taslima Nasreen flew out of New Delhi this afternoon to Europe for medical treatment,” her publisher Sibani Mukherjee told AFP, declining to disclose the exact destination. Close friends also confirmed she had left India. Nasreen was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994 after Muslims accused her of blasphemy over her novel “Lajja” - or “Shame” - which depicts the life of a Hindu family persecuted by Muslims in Bangladesh.
She had been seeking permanent residence in India, where she moved after spending time in Europe and the United States, but New Delhi has been fearful of a Muslim backlash. The writer was forced to flee the eastern city of Kolkata, which she adopted as her home in 2004, in November after receiving death threats from Indian Muslims, and has since been living in hiding in the capital New Delhi. afp
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