Imphal, August 31: Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen today lent support to a protest by students here against the �custodial killing� of a Manipuri woman by security personnel saying the incident was a shame for any civilised society.

Nasreen, who arrived in the city a few days back to celebrate her 42nd birthday, went to the venue of a hunger strike staged by the students� wing of the CPI(M)(L) here and shared her thoughts with the agitators on the issue.

"Please don�t portray me as one of the protestors.

That would create visa problems for me as I am not supposed to be part of any agitation.

I am here just to express my solidarity with the issue," she told photographers as they were about to take her photo with the students.

CPIM(L) students� wing sources said the writer told them that she felt a deep sense of pain over incidents "that curb the basic democratic right of any human being".

The exiled writer had also expressed her remorse over reports of �misutilisation� of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and �supported� the demand for repeal of the Act from the North East, the students wing said.

Nasreen is facing a fatwa from fundamentalist groups in Bangladesh for her writings, branded as anti-Islamic by such groups.