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	A Statement from Mukto-mona : Stop Muzzling Taslima Nasrin
		Taslima Nasrin in a case where she was charged with hurting religious sentiments of followers of Islam through her writings.
		Taslima Nasrin's fate is sealed again unless she is allowed to appeal to the High Court in absentia.
		Taslima Nasrin was "convicted" in a flimsy case of hurting religious sentiments – which could not be proved in a country of over 100 million people, and to urge upon Bangladesh government to withdraw all such cases against Ms Nasrin.
	www.mukto-mona.com /human_rights/taslima/index.htm (1132 words)

	Taslima Nasrin's Visit to India \| International Humanist and Ethical Union
		Taslima Nasrin is a valued International Representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union at UNESCO and a Member of the prestigious International Academy of Humanism and a recipient of the European Union's Award for her contribution to Human Rights.
		Taslima Nasrin has been a victim of religious intolerance and bigotry and has had to flee her native country Bangladesh; but it is hoped that she will have a warm welcome in India.
		Taslima Nasrin is an ardent defender of the humanist values of freedom, rationalism, scientific temper, democracy, liberty of speech and freedom of belief.
	www.iheu.org /node/106 (462 words)

	TASLIMA NASRIN IS IN DANGER, IRANIAN ACTIVIST GROUP WARNS
		Nasrin was granted political asylum in several West European nations, including Sweden and Germany and received many awards for her uncompromising campaigns in favour of the rights of women in Muslim countries, returned to Bangladesh to visit her ailing mother but had to face, once again, the same Islamic fundamentalists.
		Nasrin had denied a dispatch by the German News Agency DPA quoting her family as saying that she was "ready to apologise for her position against Islam", describing the DPA's story as "baseless and irresponsible".
		Nasrin is defending the rights of millions of women that live under medieval age Islamic laws that deny them the most basic and elementary human rights, the millions of women who in countries like Iran and Afghanistan refuses the barbaric and authoritarian rule laws of Islam and Islamic states.
	www.iran-press-service.com /articles/taslima.html (983 words)

	Writer Taslima Nasrin's Case Tests Secular Law in Muslim Bangladesh
		Similarly, to understand the widespread and militant reaction to the radical (read provocative) views expressed by Taslima Nasrin, one needs to be aware of the strong religious sentiments of 90 percent of the population of Bangladesh, and the revered place the Qur'an occupies in such a society.
		The arrest warrant issued against Taslima Nasrin, according to Bangladeshi Ambassador to the U.S. Humayun Kabir, is both to provide her protective custody and also to make her defend herself in a court of law against the charge of disrupting law and order through her writings and statements.
		Nasrin was an unknown, and as attention has focused upon her writing, accusations of plagiarism have been leveled against her.
	www.wrmea.com /backissues/0994/9409051.htm (1430 words)

	Taslima Nasrin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taslima Nasrin (Bangla: তসলিমা নাসরিন), also known as Taslima Nasreen, (born 25 August 1962 in Mymensingh, Bangladesh) is a Bengali Bangladeshi physician, writer, feminist human rights activist and secular humanist.
		Some of her critics believe that part of the reasons of Taslima Nasrin's popularity is because of her critical views on religions, especially Islam.
		Nasrin is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taslima_Nasrin (840 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Nasrin Memoir Confronts Taboo
		Taslima Nasrin, the Bangladeshi author whose sexually frank memoir of the literary life has ignited controversy, litigation and bitter condemnations from conservative clerics and former friends alike, realizes that her situation is a bit unusual.
		Nasrin is trying to explain why she began writing her autobiography, the third volume of which was published recently in her native Bengali language.
		Nasrin is currently a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Kennedy School of Government, where she is working on a project focused on the secularization of Islamic countries.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=356811 (1095 words)

	Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I want to argue that Taslima Nasrin is condemned, especially in the literary circle, because she is the first woman to talk openly about female sexuality in Bangla literature.
		Whether Taslima's accounts in Dwikhondita were based on reality is an entirely separate debate, but from the ill reaction towards the book, we come to understand once again that when a female talks openly about her sexuality it is not well received.
		Nasrin has flipped the use of womb from a place of reproduction to a place of resistance.
	www.thedailystar.net /forum/2006/december/taslima.htm (1134 words)

	Taslima Nasrin
		There is no question about the bravery of Taslima Nasrin--a government anesthesiologist and the daughter of a county physician father and a devoutly religious mother, who was suddenly thrust into the spotlight upon the angry response of Islamic militants to her feminist writings.
		Nasrin's writings express her thoughts on religion, feminism, and sexuality clearly--issues that are not often expressed in the open in the traditional Muslim society of Bangladesh.
		This concern for the self is something refreshing that is found in Nasrin's poetry--according to the traditional expectations and values of South Asian society, women are constantly expected to sacrifice their own personal freedom and happiness for the sake of husbands, children, and family.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Nasrin.html (1496 words)

	Bangladesh: Government should ensure safety of Taslima Nasrin - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although there are no reports, at present, to indicate that Nasrin has been arrested or taken to prison, Amnesty International would oppose her detention in connection with such charges that relate purely to the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression.
		Taslima Nasrin fled Bangladesh in 1994 when former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's government ordered her arrest after an Indian newspaper quoted her as saying the Koran should be rewritten.
		Taslima Nasrin maintains she was misquoted but does favour changes in Islamic law to give more rights to women.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGASA130011998?open&of=ENG-BGD (305 words)

	Taslima Nasrin \| International Humanist and Ethical Union
		The harassment and persecution of the humanist author Taslima Nasrin and of newspaper editors who have supported her cause is an attempt to suppress the right to question and criticise religious belief and practice.
		The IHEU also urges that the ban on Taslima Nasrin's novel Lajja (Shame) be withdrawn and that the freedom of the author to speak on the basis of her conscience be upheld.
		At the heart of Taslima Nasrin's activities is a deep-rooted determination to improve the position of women, who are treated as slaves and have no control over their own wombs.
	www.iheu.org /node/404 (724 words)

	Taslima
		The fear is that the complainant is aware of this, but that the purpose of the action is to force Nasrin from hiding as she is required by law to appear in a court to apply for bail.
		Nasrin had been living abroad since her flight from Bangladesh in August 1994, after a series of demonstrations calling for her execution and a court case was initiated against her.
		Nasrin had given assurances that she would return to Bangladesh whenever the court required her presence, most likely at its final, closing hearing.
	saxakali.com /southasia/taslima.htm (792 words)

	Women's WORLD
		Taslima Nasrin, 31, is a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, and feminist journalist.
		Nasrin lives in Dhaka and is unable to leave because the government has confiscated her passport.
		In January, 1993, Nasrin's passport was confiscated at the airport as she was en route to a conference in India, on the grounds that she had lied about her identity because she listed her occupation as a journalist, not a doctor.
	www.wworld.org /archive/archive.asp?ID=151 (1508 words)

	SAWNET: Taslima Nasrin
		Taslima Nasrin spent two months in hiding in Bangladesh, where Muslim fundamentalists were infuriated by a newspaper article that quoted her as urging a revision of the Koran, the Islamic holy book.
		Nasrin is charged by a Bangladeshi court with offending the religious sentiments of Muslims, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison.
		Nasrin is being hosted by the Swedish branch of PEN, which had invited her to visit last spring, according to the Swedish news agency TT.
	www.umiacs.umd.edu /users/sawweb/sawnet/news/nasrin.html (3062 words)

	Taslima Nasrin: "They Wanted to Kill Me" - Middle East Quarterly
		Nasrin has won many awards, including Ananda Puroshkar, an Indian literary award; the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought from the European Parliament; the Kurt Tuckholsky award from Swedish PEN; a human rights prize from the French government; and a humanist award from International Humanist and Ethical Union.
		Taslima Nasrin: I started writing a newspaper column in 1989 based on my experiences as a doctor and on my observation generally about the plight of women and their oppression in the male-dominated society of Bangladesh.
		Nasrin: On one occasion in Bangladesh, at the national book fair, the fundamentalists attacked me physically; I was knocked to the ground and had my clothes torn.
	www.meforum.org /meq/article.php?id=73 (3812 words)

	Taslima Nasrin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Court cases : Trials are still going on for Blasphemy against Taslima Nasreen in Bangladesh court.
		Exile: Taslima Nasreen has been living in exile for 5 years.
		She lived in Sweden, Germany and United States.
	humanists.net /nasrin/profile.htm (104 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		When in 2002 Taslima Nasrin brought out her book Meyebela, the intention of the author was to insert into Bengali literary discourse the concept of girlhood.
		Taslima Nasrin was born into a middle class family in what was then known as East Pakistan in 1962.
		Nasrin articulates a view of the Koran that sharply collides with the conventional wisdom in the West.
	lark.phoblacht.net /AM2603068g.html (1692 words)

	Festivity of the Erwin Fischer Award 2002 to Ms. Taslima Nasrin \| International League of Non-religious and Atheists ...
		Within a festivity during the course of the international congress the Erwin Fischer Award was awarded to the author and physician Dr. Taslima Nasrin on September 21, 2002.
		Nasrin that she had awakened "this small group of fundamentalistic moslems, who act according to the motto: anyone who wants to make use of human rights must do it only there where it will disturb nobody" as Ms.
		Nasrin leaves no doubt for in her books that religion is the source for inequality and injustice.
	www.ibka.org /en/articles/rb02/award.html (566 words)

	Taslima's Pilgrimage
		Nine-year-old Taslima is bundled into a carriage with her mother, grandmother and other children to hide out with relatives in the countryside.
		Nasrin did not have to flee Bangladesh merely because she wrote a novel about the persecution of its Hindu minority or told an Indian reporter the Sharia (Islamic law) was outdated and should be left behind.
		Nasrin combined the violation of those taboos with an even more daring transgression: She opened the closet door on a whole world of subterranean sexual experience and feeling, much of it abusive, and none of it considered fit to be discussed.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20021118/tax (848 words)

	Nasrin
		The death sentence issued by fundamentalist Muslims against thirty-six-year-old Taslima Nasrin, the controversial Bangladeshi author and gynecologist, has been renewed now that she has voluntarily returned to Bangladesh with her dying mother.
		Nasrin's most recent communication has been an e-mail sent on October 14 to one of her editors, fellow humanist Warren Allen Smith, in which she says, "I am still alive in hiding, not yet arrested by police, not yet killed by the fundamentalists.
		They further stated that, if Nasrin is imprisoned on such grounds, the organization will view her as a prisoner of conscience and campaign for her immediate and unconditional release.
	www.americanhumanist.org /press/nasrin.html (796 words)

	Taslima Nasrin - A Writer on Trial
		As well as the death threat against her, Taslima Nasrin also faces a formal government charge which carries a sentence of up to two years in jail.
		Taslima's transformation from an unknown doctor, specialising in family planning, to a notorious writer with a price on her head, was not that surprising.
		Taslima Nasrin, although unrepentant in her stand, does not underestimate her opponents.
	www.atheistfoundation.org.au /taslima.htm (2224 words)

	Taslima Nasrin Protest
		Nasrin has attracted the wrath of Islamic militants in her native Bangladesh for her comments about the status of women, as well as her call for civil political institutions as an alternative to theocracy and religious dogmatism.
		Nasrin to “surrender” so she might be prosecuted under the law.
		Nasrin's safety, or caves in to the demands of religious extremists by enacting a new “blasphemy” law, Atheists -- indeed, secularists in general -- should consider more demonstrations, letter-writing campaigns and other appropriate actions on behalf of the dissident writer.
	www.americanatheist.org /supplement/nasrin10-19-98.html (704 words)

	Taslima Nasrin
		Taslima Nasrin -- good recent news and some of Taslima's poetry.
		These incidents form the backdrop for Dr. Taslima Nasrin's explosive and courageous book, Shame, describing the nightmarish fate of one family within her country's small Hindu community.
		The Taslima Nasrin Home Page is hosted by the Humanists.net
	humanists.net /nasrin/links.htm (398 words)

	TASLIMA NASRIN GRANTED BAIL: STILL UNDER DEATH THREAT
		theist-feminist writer Taslima Nasrin made a surprise appearance in court yesterday, and was granted bail in a civil suit charging her with insulting religious beliefs of Muslims in her native country of Bangladesh.
		Nasrin's plight should pause and remember that this latest bail hearing is little comfort, and still does not resolve the wider questions in her case.
		Nasrin faces the same dilemma as Salman Rushdie; both are targets of Islamic wrath, and the groups stalking them appear unconcerned about any "official" status they may have.
	www.atheists.org /flash.line/nasrin5.htm (1136 words)

	Random House \| Books \| Meyebela by Taslima Nasrin
		Taslima Nasrin revisits her early years — from her auspicious birth on a Muslim holy day to the threshold of womanhood at fourteen — in a small rural village during the years East Pakistan became Bangladesh.
		A precocious child, Nasrin’s acute awareness of the injustice and suffering endured by her mother and other Muslim women cause her to turn from the Koran in early adolescence, and to begin a journey to redefine her world.
		Her growing awareness of the class discriminations, gender disparities, and growing religious orthodoxy and intolerance in her family and her rural village parallel the broader social and cultural upheaval emerging in the new nation, and foreshadow the growth of a feminist dissident courageous enough to defy the fundamentalist Muslim clerics.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781586420512&view=print (280 words)

	Bangladesh needs new secular leadership: Taslima Nasrin
		Saying that fundamentalism had destroyed the country, exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslim Nasrin prayed for a new secular leadership in Bangladesh to bring the country out of its present sorry state.
		There is a need for a new secular leadership to take the country forward," Nasrin told IANS in an exclusive interview Thursday night soon after a state of emergency was declared in Bangladesh in the run-up to a general elections on January 22.
		Taslima went into hiding in 1994 and then fled Bangladesh with support from international human rights organisations like PEN and Amnesty International and was given asylum in Sweden.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Asia/20070112/562121.html (345 words)

	Taslima Nasrin posts banned book on Net.
		Taslima Nasrin posts un-censored version of her banned books on the Internet.
		Taslima now in Kolkata visiting the Kolkata Book Fair and meeting press justifying her "freedom of speech" has used technology to make her banned book available to the world.
		Her publisher quite busy in calculating "loss due to availability of the book free on the Internet." The State Government is busy providing security to the controversial author and the Taslima fans are busy reading the uncensored version of the banned books.
	www.bardhaman.com /news/taslima_nasreen.htm (569 words)

	rabble.ca - in their own words
		Taslima Nasrin is an internationally known feminist writer from Bangladesh.
		Nasrin: I thought it was natural to ask “why.” I don’t understand why they accepted being beaten by their husbands, being prevented from going outside without permission, being forced to marry somebody and stopping their studies after marriage.
		Nasrin: Ultimately, not even a liberal interpretation of the Koran can lead to equality because there are hundreds of very negative verses and they outnumber the few verses that can be interpreted positively.
	www.rabble.ca /in_their_own_words.shtml?x=18953 (1517 words)

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