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PARIS — The Paris mayor’s office says it has decided to provide exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin with a rent-free apartment in the French capital. A spokesman said the writer asked the city for help after being made an honorary citizen.
The spokesman, who asked not to be named in keeping with department policy, said Saturday that Nasrin will move next month into a former convent that was turned into an artists’ residence in February.
Nasrin left Bangladesh in 1994 after Islamic extremists accused her of insulting Islam in her writings and threatened to kill her.
