After learning she would get just a three-month extension, Taslima Nasreen (in picture) had on Wednesday posted a tweet requesting home minister Amit Shah to extend her visa for at least a year. Her residence permit was to expire at the end of this month. After learning she would get just a three-month extension, Taslima had on Wednesday posted a tweet requesting home minister Amit Shah to extend her visa for at least a year. Taslima’s Wednesday tweet had said: “Hon’ble @amitshah ji, I sincerely thank u for extending my residence permit. She holds a Swedish passport and lived in the US and Europe for about a decade before India granted her a temporary residence permit in 2004.

Source: The Telegraph July 21, 2019 19:45 UTC