General Article Salman Rushdie’s battle for free speech has been lost, friends say

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Supporters claim censorship is now so rife that the author would struggle to publish The Satanic Verses today.

By Patrick Sawer, Senior News Reporter

Sir Salman Rushdie’s fight for freedom of expression has been ‘lost’, according to his friends and supporters, with censorship now so rife that the author would struggle to publish The Satanic Verses today.

Rushdie’s determination to keep voicing his vision free of dogmatic strictures has been severely undermined by extremist religious leaders a...

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