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| Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has arrived in Europe to begin a new life, reports say, after protests by Muslim groups forced her into hiding in India. | Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has arrived in Europe to begin a new life, reports say, after protests by Muslim groups forced her into hiding in India. |
| "She has landed safely somewhere in Europe," a spokeswoman for the writers' group, Pen, told the BBC, adding that her exact location could not be given. | "She has landed safely somewhere in Europe," a spokeswoman for the writers' group, Pen, told the BBC, adding that her exact location could not be given. |
| Ms Nasreen said earlier this week that her health had suffered as a result of spending time in hiding. | Ms Nasreen said earlier this week that her health had suffered as a result of spending time in hiding. |
| She fled her native Bangladesh in 1994 when her book attracted death threats. | |
| After spending several years in Sweden, she moved to Calcutta, an Indian city close to Bangladesh where Ms Nasreen's mother tongue of Bengali is spoken. | |
| She was moved from the city last November after Muslim groups staged violent protests, accusing her of having insulted Islam. | |
| Property was damaged in the riots and at least 43 people were hurt. | |
| Ms Nasreen has since lived in secret locations in the Indian capital, Delhi. | |
| Earlier this week, she said she was preparing to leave India as her confinement had damaged her health. | |
| She also accused the Indian authorities of encouraging her to leave the country. | |
| Muslim anger | |
| A spokeswoman for the Swedish office of international writers' rights group, Pen, told the BBC she did not know where Ms Nasreen eventually intended to settle. | |
| "Taslima Nasreen is really a citizen of the world," Ms Maria Modig said. | |
| Ms Nasreen rose to prominence in 1993 after her first book, entitled Lajja, or Shame, angered some of the country's Muslims. | |
| The book argued that Bangladeshis had mistreated the country's Hindu minority. | |
| A more recent novel by Ms Nasreen, Dwikhondito or Split in Two, was accused by some Muslim groups of causing offence to Islam. | |
| They were incensed at comments she is said to have made to an Indian newspaper calling for changes to the Koran to give women more rights. | |
| Ms Nasreen denies making the remarks. |