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.