The Latest Breaking News from Salman Rushdie

Police investigating ‘online threat’ made to JK Rowling following Salman Rushdie tweet

‘Don’t worry you are next,’ a user tweeted the author

The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2022

Police investigating 'online threat' to JK Rowling after Salman Rushdie tweet

POLICE said they are investigating a report of an “online threat” made to JK Rowling after she tweeted her reaction to the stabbing of Salman…

The National (Scotland) · Aug 14, 2022

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The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2022

Salman Rushdie: ‘My book being put in jail’

“It seems to me that we now have a situation in India in which any two or three religious people can get their will just by saying so!”

The Hindu · Aug 14, 2022

Where Salman Rushdie defied those who would silence him, today too many fear causing offence

The terrible injuries suffered by the great British writer will not extinguish his belief in the critical importance of saying the unsayable

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2022

Coward attacks literary giant, achieves nothing

Byline: A.M Gautam

The Times of India · Aug 14, 2022

Iran Media Hail Attack on Salman Rushdie

Conservative Iranian media hailed on Saturday the attacker who stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie in New York on Friday. Iran has yet to officially comment on the incident, but the Kayhan daily, whose editor-in-chief is appointed by the supreme leader, declared “a thousand salutes” to the brave man who attacked “the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 14, 2022

Salman Rushdie on the 'road to recovery' as attack suspect pleads not guilty

Author Salman Rushdie showed signs of improvement in hospital on Sunday as the man accused of stabbing him pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges.

France 24 · Aug 14, 2022

The Observer view on the attack on Salman Rushdie being an attack on free expression

The author’s courage to speak out while living under a fatwa for 30 years should be taken as an example by others

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2022

JK Rowling receives death threat on Twitter after voicing support for Salman Rushdie

The Harry Potter author was reacting to the news of Sir Salman's stabbing, which occurred when he was about to deliver a lecture in New York state on Friday

Wales Online · Aug 14, 2022