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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