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Salman Rushdie fatwa renewed

Title
Salman Rushdie fatwa renewed
Genre
News report
TX Date
9 Feb 1990
Year of production
1990
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Duration
00:02:08
Description
Mike Theodoulou reports from Nicosia, Cyprus, on a renewal of the fatwa from Iran against author Salman Rushdie over his Satanic Verses novel by the new Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a possible resulting increase in terrorist violence and strained UK-Iran relations.
Contributors
Mike Theodoulou
Keywords
Books; Authors; Iran; Deportation; Terrorism; Writers; UK; International relations; Freedom of expression; Novels; Islam; Fiction; Cyprus; The Satanic Verses; Controversial literature; Fatwa; Salmon Rushdie; Nicosia; Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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