Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, on the run from death threats from Islamic militants, has returned to India to renew her visa, a rights activist said Saturday

PARIS, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - Bangladeshi novelist Taslima Nasreen is to be made an honorary citizen of Paris, Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said Monday, praising her courage and freedom struggle.

'You have been chased out of your home because you raised your voice against the inhumanity of fanatism,' Delanoe told a Paris city council meeting.

STOCKHOLM, July 1, 2008 (AFP) - Bangladeshi novelist-in-hiding Taslima Nasreen joined international writers gathered at a literary conference in Stockholm Tuesday to deplore how censorship and persecution affect their work.

STOCKHOLM, June 29, 2008 (AFP) - Bangladeshi novelist Taslima Nasreen will Tuesday make her first public appearance since she fled death threats from Islamic militants, organisers of a literary meeting in Sweden said Sunday.

STOCKHOLM, June 2, 2008 (AFP) - Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who has received death threats from Islamic militants, has been granted a two-year safe haven in the Swedish town of Uppsala, the Swedish PEN Club said on Monday.

NEW DELHI, March 20, 2008 (AFP) - Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen's publisher and supporters accused the Indian government on Thursday of forcing the writer out of the country because of fears of a Muslim backlash.

Nasreen left mainly Hindu but officially secular India on Wednesday after accusing the Indian government of forcing her to quit the country.

STOCKHOLM, March 19, 2008 (AFP) - Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen arrived in Europe on Wednesday after fleeing India for security reasons, the Swedish PEN Club told AFP, while unconfirmed media reports indicated she was in Sweden.

NEW DELHI, March 19, 2008 (AFP) - Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has left India for Europe after being hounded into hiding by death threats from Islamic militants, her publisher and friends told AFP on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI, March 18, 2008 (AFP) - Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, hounded into hiding in India by death threats from Islamic militants, said Tuesday she has heart problems and is losing her eyesight because of stress.

NEW DELHI, Feb 15, 2008 (AFP) - Bangladesh writer Taslima Nasreen, hounded into hiding in India by death threats from Islamic militants, says she wants to go abroad and 'leave this impossible situation', according to reports Monday.

KOLKATA, India, Feb 15, 2008 (AFP) - Scores of Muslims led by a radical cleric protested Friday against India's decision to extend the visa of threatened Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who is in hiding in New Delhi.

NEW DELHI, Feb 14, 2008 (AFP) - India on Thursday renewed the visa of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, in hiding in India after death threats from Islamic groups over her work.

But it warned the author not to do anything that would 'hurt the sentiments' of India's religious communities, an apparent reference to the nation's 140 million Muslims.

NEW DELHI, Jan 24, 2008 (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to present Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, in hiding in India after death threats, with an award in Paris, the French Embassy in India said Thursday.

PARIS, Jan 24, 2008 (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy would like to present Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, in hiding in India following Islamist death threats, with an award in Paris, a women's rights group said Thursday.

PARIS, Jan 11, 2008 (AFP) - Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, under Indian government protection from Islamist death threats, described her life in hiding as a 'slow and lingering death' in a text released in France on Friday.

KOLKATA, Dec 22, 2007 (AFP) - Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, in hiding in India since protests against her by a hardline Islamic group last month, is lonely and struggling to write, her publisher said.

NEW DELHI, Dec 20, 2007 (AFP) - Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen Thursday said she was ordered to go into hiding in India to avoid renewed protests over her 'anti-Islamic' writings, the Press Trust of India reported.

Nasreen told the domestic news agency by telephone that she would 'not be allowed to return to Kolkata for now.'

NEW DELHI, Dec 3, 2007 (AFP) - Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who is in hiding in India after protests by Muslims, must apologise for her 'anti-Islamic' writings, a prominent Indian Muslim cleric said Monday.

NEW DELHI, Dec 1, 2007 (AFP) - Hardline Indian Muslim groups said they would meet on Sunday to decide whether to keep up demands for the expulsion of Bangladesh author Taslima Nasreen, hounded into hiding by protests against her.

NEW DELHI, Nov 30, 2007 (AFP) - Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who was hounded into hiding by hardline Islamists, said Friday she will remove a passage from an autobiography which some Indian Muslims found offensive.

Nasreen, who had been living in Kolkata since 2004, said she hoped the move would enable her to live in peace in India.

NEW DELHI, Nov 28, 2007 (AFP) - India pledged on Wednesday to protect controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen who is in hiding after receiving threats from Islamic groups.

At the same time, the Congress party-led government warned Nasreen not to make any statements that might 'hurt the sentiments of our people' in an apparent reference to India's 140-million-plus Muslims

NEW DELHI, Nov 27, 2007 (AFP) - Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, in hiding in India after death threats from Islamic groups, has found an ally in a hardline Hindu leader accused of collusion in the killing of Muslims during religious riots in 2002.

NEW DELHI, Nov 26, 2007 (AFP) - Opposition Hindu nationalists Monday pressed New Delhi to provide security to Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, who faces death threats from Muslim groups at home and in India.

NEW DELHI, Nov 24, 2007 (AFP) - Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen remained in hiding in India on Saturday, fearing attacks from radical Muslims who see her work as blasphemous, officials said.

The author was driven to the Indian capital New Delhi late on Friday under police escort and housed under tight security at an official residence, Indian media said.

NEW DELHI, Nov 23, 2007 (AFP) - Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has been on the run from extremist Muslims threatening to kill her ever since she started writing books that incensed religious hardliners.

NEW DELHI, India, Nov 23, 2007 (AFP) - Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen was under Indian police protection on Friday after Muslims hit the streets demanding her expulsion for blasphemy, officials said.

Violent protests by thousands of Muslims led to Nasreen first being ushered out of riot-hit Kolkata city late Thursday.

JODHPUR, India, Nov 23, 2007 (AFP) - Indian authorities on Friday moved on controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen a second time in as many days after violence wracked an eastern city, a senior police official said.

Nasreen, whose writing has offended conservative Muslims, had already been ushered out of riot-hit Kolkata city to western Rajasthan state late Thursday.

KOLKATA, India, Nov 22, 2007 (AFP) - Indian authorities Thursday moved the controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen out of Kolkata after violence hit the eastern Indian city, a police chief told AFP.

KOLKATA, India, Aug 18, 2007 (AFP) - Security was stepped up for the exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Saturday after the controversial author was issued with a death threat, police said.

The move came after radical Muslim cleric Majidulla Khan Farhad on Friday accused Nasreen of 'defaming' Islam and announced an 'unlimited financial reward' to anybody who would kill her, according to the Press Trust of India.

HYDERABAD, India, Aug 13, 2007 (AFP) - The controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen will face criminal charges for her 'anti-Islamic' views, which have provoked attacks against her by Muslim activists, police said Monday.

A police official in the southern city of Hyderabad, where outraged Islamic activists flung a bouquet, a satchel and other items at Nasreen Thursday during a press event, said the author faces a charge of hurting Muslim feelings.

HYDERABAD, India, Aug 9, 2007 (AFP) - Muslim activists on Thursday attacked controversial and self-exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen at a book launch in southern India, police and witnesses said.

Nasreen was on the stage at the press club in Hyderabad, capital of Andhra Pradesh state, when about 60 protesters from a regional Muslim political party forced their way in.

The Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen activists, led by three state legislators, broke up the function, police said.