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Salman Rushdie speaking in Sao Paulo on May 14, 2014. (Flickr/Greg Salibian/CC BY-SA)
February 11, 2019, 8:23 am
‘I don’t want to hide,’ says Rushdie, 30 years after fatwa
Iranian death sentence that sent the famed Indo-British author into years of hiding launched a new era of ‘competitive intolerance’ targeting writers, says rights advocate
By Fiachra GIBBONS
Larry David speaks onstage during Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on October 4, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images/AFP)
October 8, 2017, 6:23 am
Salman Rushdie chortles over Larry David’s ‘fatwa’
Author says ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ is helping remove stigma from ‘Satanic Verses’ by making fun of Iranian death sentence
By TOI staff
People arrive to mourn after the death of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, at Jamaran mosque in Tehran, on January 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
January 10, 2017, 10:55 am
Thousands throng funeral for Iran’s Rafsanjani
White House sends unprecedented condolence message as father figure of moderate and reformist camps laid to rest
By Ali Noorani
Mourners gather around the coffin of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during a mourning ceremony at the Jamaran mosque in Tehran, on January 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
January 9, 2017, 3:07 pm
Mourning Rafsanjani, Iran frets over moderate movement’s future
A pivotal figure in foundation of Islamic Republic in 1979, former president hailed as leading reformist, counterweight to hardliners
By AFP and AP
In this Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 file photo, author Salman Rushdie attends a promotional event for “Midnight’s Children” in Mumbai, India. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, file)
March 24, 2016, 3:28 pm
Nobel panel pans Rushdie death warrant, 27 years on
Decision comes after Iran raises bounty on writer’s head by $600,000; 2 academy members quit in 1989 over group’s refusal to condemn fatwa
By Karl Ritter
File: Salman Rushdie and Shimon Peres at an event in New York, September 2008. (David Shankbone/CC BY 2.0/Flickr)
October 8, 2015, 12:19 pm
Iran to boycott Frankfurt Book Fair over Salman Rushdie appearance
Author of ‘blasphemous’ book was target of $3 million bounty offered by Tehran regime to anyone who kills him
By AP
Lucie Morillon, head of research at French watchdog Reporters without Borders, holds a banner depicting Syrian human rights activist Mazen Darwish during a protest against violence in Syria, in Paris, Saturday, October 20, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Francois Mori)
October 10, 2014, 2:24 am
Imprisoned Syrian activist wins PEN Pinter prize
Mazen Darwish shares award with novelist Salman Rushdie in fight toward ‘civilized values’ of free speech, human rights
By AP
File: Salman Rushdie speaks with university students. (CC-BY-SA, Nrbelex, Wikimedia Commons)
April 8, 2013, 11:17 pm
Salman Rushdie recalls Thatcher’s ‘touch of tenderness’
Author whose life was threatened by Iran remembers British PM’s protection and his own mixed feelings for the Iron Lady
File: Salman Rushdie speaks with university students. (CC-BY-SA, Nrbelex, Wikimedia Commons)
September 17, 2012, 4:40 am
Salman Rushdie bounty increases as Muslim world fumes at prophet insults
Reward for killing the author rises to $3.3 million
Salman Rushie with Emory University students. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA/Nrbelex/Wikipedia Commons)
June 28, 2012, 12:20 am
Death to Rushdie! (the video game)
Iran’s Islamic Association of Students unveils game inspired by regime’s death sentence against the writer
By Nathan Burstein
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