11-23-2007, 06:54 AM
<b>Controversial writer Taslima Nasreen moved to Delhi </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi, Nov 23: Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen was shifted to Jaipur on Thursday from West Bengal because of security concerns. After an overnight stay in Jaipur, Taslima has been further sifted to on Friday morning Delhi by road. She was escorted to Delhi by the Rajasthan Police.
She was accompanied by a person identified as Faisal.
Shaken by violence unleashed by Muslim hardliners, demanding that Talisma Nasreen be moved out of West Bengal, the Left Front government on Thursday had nudged the controversial Bangladeshi writer to leave the state for Jaipur.
<b>In Jaipur, Nasreen was staying at a downtown hotel, Shikha, close to the CMâs residence, where 30 police personnel were guarding her, .</b>
Her departure to Delhi at 6: 30 am came amid threats by a Muslim organisation, the All India Milli Council, to hold demonstrations in the city if the writer was kept in the state for long.
She was shifted out of West Bengal, a day after large-scale violence broke out in Kolkata over demands that her visa be cancelled.
Taslima Nasreen has been living in exile after a fatwa was issued against her in Bangladesh. She had earned the wrath of the conservative muslims by her writing and fled her homeland in 1994 after radical muslims demanded her execution. Her visa has been extended to February 17.
She was also attacked up by activists of Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen(MIM) at a book release function on August 9 in Hyderabad, earlier this year. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
She was accompanied by a person identified as Faisal.
Shaken by violence unleashed by Muslim hardliners, demanding that Talisma Nasreen be moved out of West Bengal, the Left Front government on Thursday had nudged the controversial Bangladeshi writer to leave the state for Jaipur.
<b>In Jaipur, Nasreen was staying at a downtown hotel, Shikha, close to the CMâs residence, where 30 police personnel were guarding her, .</b>
Her departure to Delhi at 6: 30 am came amid threats by a Muslim organisation, the All India Milli Council, to hold demonstrations in the city if the writer was kept in the state for long.
She was shifted out of West Bengal, a day after large-scale violence broke out in Kolkata over demands that her visa be cancelled.
Taslima Nasreen has been living in exile after a fatwa was issued against her in Bangladesh. She had earned the wrath of the conservative muslims by her writing and fled her homeland in 1994 after radical muslims demanded her execution. Her visa has been extended to February 17.
She was also attacked up by activists of Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen(MIM) at a book release function on August 9 in Hyderabad, earlier this year. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->