Nasreen trial put back again

Nasreen trial put back again

DHAKA (AFP): The trial of exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen was put off yesterday until Feb. 9 by a magistrate's court, legal sources said.

This is for the fourth time the trial in absentia of the exiled writer has been postponed.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A.K.M. Kamaluddin ordered defense lawyers to produce a certified copy of a High Court order which stayed action until the prosecution gets formal approval from the interior ministry for the trial.

Nasreen, 32, a women's rights activist facing death threats from Moslem fundamentalists, secretly left Bangladesh Aug. 10. A week earlier she emerged from hiding to surrender to the High Court seeking bail.