Salman Rushdie warns of threat to freedom of expression in the West

The novelist says ‘the attack on the idea of libraries themselves. It is quite remarkably alarming’

16 May 2023 - 21:22 By Reuters

Novelist Salman Rushdie has warned that countries in the West face the most severe threats to freedom of expression and freedom to publish in his lifetime, speaking nine months after a man repeatedly stabbed him onstage in New York...

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