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The history of the price of free speech

Author Salman Rushdie remains in critical condition after a brutal knife attack last week. We'll look at the long history of the price people pay to defend free speech.
After publishing his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, Rushdie was condemned to death by former Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini in early 1989, and he was forced into hiding. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

Author Salman Rushdie spent years hiding because Iran’s religious leaders wanted him dead for a book they didn’t like.

Rushdie remained a fierce defender of . In 2015, when gunmen killed 12 at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, he .

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