1.   A Bangladeshi writer was charged with carrying out anti-state activities and sent to jail Friday, police and a rights group said.

2.   A Bangladeshi writer, who became a target of Islamic extremists for supporting controversial author Taslima Nasrin, died of a heart attack Wednesday.

3.   A radical Islamic group Wednesday repeated its death threat to exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin for calling the Koran a mere historical book.

4.   A radical Islamic group Wednesday repeated its threat to kill exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin for calling the Koran merely a historical book.

5.   In a similar case, neighboring Sweden granted Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin a safe haven last August.

6.   It was unclear whether the dispensation would also apply to Taslima Nasreen, a Bangladeshi writer who was condemned by fundamentalists in her country.

7.   The commission last month issued an individual award to exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin.

8.   The European Parliament on Thursday awarded Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen its Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought.

9.   The Foreign Ministry on Thursday rebuked exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin for criticizing Thailand because it refused her a visa.

10.   French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur is negotiating a face-saving get-out in the case of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, the centre-left newspaper Liberation said on Friday.