BBC: The Dutch government says it will no longer pay for bodyguards to protect Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born former MP and outspoken critic of Islam.
Ms Hirsi Ali earlier this week returned to the Netherlands from the US, where she has been living for the past year.
The Dutch justice ministry said it could not justify paying for Ms Hirsi Ali's protection while she was abroad.
She continues to receive protection while in the Netherlands, where Islamic militants have threatened her life.
"When Ms Hirsi Ali is in the Netherlands, protection measures will be taken for her on the basis of recent threat evaluations," the Dutch Justice Minister, Ernst Hirsch Ballin told parliament in a letter.
Ms Hirsi Ali could no longer be regarded as a representative of the Netherlands after she resigned as an MP in 2006, Mr Hirsch Ballin said.
"In stepping down, Ms Hirsi Ali's status changed. Since this time she has no longer served in an official function for the Dutch state," he said.
Her current status did not warrant "any place for protection abroad", he added. Dutch withdraw security for ex-MP (more)
Mark Alexander
