Salman Rushdie: Iranian media raise more money for fatwa

Edit The Guardian 22 Feb 2016
Forty media outlets add extra $600,000 to religious edict originally issued by Ayatollah Khomeini over The Satanic Verses. @siancain ... The total funds theoretically available to reward Rushdie’s murder now run into millions of dollars ... The Norwegian publisher William Nygaard survived being shot three times in Oslo in 1993, while the Turkish translator Aziz Nesin escaped an arson attack on a hotel in 1993 in which 37 people were killed ... ....

Former Ottoman prison serves as luxury hotel now

Edit Turkish Press 14 Feb 2014
By Nilay Kar ... The inmates were transferred to Bayrampasa prison ... Along with the usual male prisoners, women and youths were occasionally detained there, along with a number of famous artists and political figures, including poet Nazim Hikmet, communist leader Mihri Belli, novelist Orhan Kemal, screenwriter Vedat Turkali, and Aziz Nesin, a controversial humourist who published over 100 books ... Friday, February 14, 2014 ...   ... Source ... U.S ... ....
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