Taslima wants adequate security after death threat
Kolkata, Aug. 18 (PTI): A day after radical Muslim clerics issued a death threat to Taslima Nasrin, the exiled Bangladeshi writer today asked the government to provide her adequate security.
"I hope the government and the police here will provide adequate security to me," she said.
Addressing a rally at Esplanade here yesterday after the Friday prayers at the nearby Tipu Sultan mosque, Majidulla Khan Farhad of Hyderabad-based Majlis Bachao Tehriq accused Taslima of "defaming" Islam and announced "unlimited financial reward" to anybody who would kill her.
Incidentally, Farhad was among those who had attacked the controversial writer at the Hyderabad Press Club last week.
Later, the celrics submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, demanding the writer's deportation. Similar memoranda was also sent to Union Home minister Shivraj Patil.
State Chief Secretary Amit Kiran Deb, however, refused to comment on the matter.
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