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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9603

16 February 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/human rights
Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls on EU for protection

Brussels, 15/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - Speaking to a group of MEPs on Thursday in Brussels, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former member of the Dutch parliament who was born in Somalia and who has been threatened with death for criticising Islam, formally asked the European Union for protection. She said she had come to ask for a European fund to be set up to ensure the protection of persons whose only crime is that of saying what they believe, Ms Hirsi Ali said. She was invited by the European...

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