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Shortly before he was attacked, Rushdie joined with dozens of Indian literary artists to lament the rise of Hindu nationalism and the fragile state of the country's democracy.
Both a letter to the Indian president and a collection of writings on the state of democracy are led by PEN International and PEN America.
Statements of anguish, defeat, defiance, rage, prayer and hope
On the eve of India’s 76th Independence Day, India's President Droupadi Murmu, received a letter calling for the release of imprisoned writers.
PEN America today condemned the sentencing of Salma Al-Shehab, a Saudi student at Leeds University in the U.K., who was sentenced to 34 years in prison for her Twitter activity.