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| Paris to house exiled writer Taslima Nasrin |
| 2009-01-04 |
| The Paris mayor's office says it has decided to provide exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin with a rent-free apartment in the French capital. A spokesman says the writer asked the city for help after being made an honorary citizen. The spokesman said Saturday that she will move into a former-convent-turned-artists' residence in February. Nasrin left Bangladesh in 1994 after Islamic extremists accused her of insulting Islam in her writings and threatened to kill her. In March 2008 she moved to Sweden from India to seek medical assistance. The spokesman says he doesn't know what motivated Nasrin to ask for a place to live and write in Paris. In Stockholm, Maria Modig, a spokeswoman for Nasrin, declined to comment about Paris' decision, or to say whether the author was still in Sweden. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Up to the 90s she was just a standard feminist who wrote, among other things, about the sexual abuse of women as she observed through her medical practice. Then she said that the Koran needs to revised. She hasn't lived in Bangladesh since then. |
| Posted by: mhw 2009-01-04 07:07 |
| #1 Tell her not to park on the street. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2009-01-04 00:36 |