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Fri, 08/28/2009 - 12:32
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Taslima leaves for US, may return in January next year



New Delhi, Aug 27 (PTI) After about 20-day sojourn
in India mainly to get extend her visa to stay in India,
controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin on Thursday
flew to the United States.

The Bangladeshi writer, who has been a target of
Islamic fundamentalists, was escorted to the Indira Gandhi
International airport amidst.

She had celebrated her 47th birthday on August 25 with
some of her close friends at an undisclosed location in the
national capital.

Taslima, who has been granted visa till February 16,
2010, took a flight for the US in the wee hours to complete
her fellowship at Pennsylvania-based Woodrow Wilson
International Centre for Scholars.

Taslima, who had arrived on August six for extension of
her visa which was due to expire on August 17, had earlier
said she may come back in January next for "permanent stay"
after completeing her fellowship.

Taslima had left India on March 18 last year for Sweden
after she was kept in an undisclosed house in the national
capital for more than four months for security reasons.
Taslima, who had not been allowed to see any visitors
during her stay in India this time, had described her
confinement as living in "a chamber of death".

She had come in February earlier this year but was asked
to leave immediately after visa was granted to her till August
17 because of the general elections in the country. PTI SKL
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