Taslima Nasreen's visa extended for a year

August 21, 2015 13:38

Just in: Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen's visa extended for a year, says the home ministry. Her residence permit expired on August 17.

Taslima Nasreen, living in exile since she left Bangladesh in a cloak of secrecy in 1994 in the wake of threats to her by fundamentalist groups for alleged blasphemy, was given one-year visa by the government in 2014 and allowed to stay in India till today.

She has been getting an Indian visa on a continuous basis since 2004. She now stays in Delhi.

On many occasions, she had expressed her wish to live in India permanently, especially in Kolkata.

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