Nobel organization decides to condemn the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, 27 years later

The Swedish Academy, the organization that awards the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature every year, has condemned an Iranian fatwa, or religious edict, calling for the death of British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie. The death warrant for the author was originally issued 27 years ago by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Authorities in the Islamic Republic were enraged by […]











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