Topic - Salman Rushdie

The request, he said, was declined by Rushdie's representatives, who cited intellectual property rights.

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"There are parts of the world where censorship has been prevalent for a long time, quite a lot of the world — Russia, China, in some ways India as well. But in the countries of the West, until recently, there was a fair measure of freedom in the area of publishing," he said. "Now I am sitting here in the U.S.; I have to look at the extraordinary attack on libraries and books for children in schools. The attack on the idea of libraries themselves. It is quite remarkably alarming, and we need to be very aware of it, and to fight against it very hard."

Salman Rushdie, in rare address after violent attack, warns that West is closing in on free speech →