Rushdie warns of new dangers to free speech in West

“It seems to me the battle for free expression was won 100 years ago,” the 68-year-old told an audience at the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair, under heavy security.
“The fact that we have to go on fighting this battle is the result of a number of regrettable, more recent phenomena.”

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