Satanic Verses author, and 200 others, use open letter to denounce Putin regime's new laws 'putting writers at risk'On the eve of the Sochi winter Olympics, as the eyes of the world turn towards Russia, an assembly of more than 200 leading international authors - including Salman Rushdie, Günter Grass, Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Franzen - has formed to denounce the "choke hold" they say the country's anti-gay and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PM on February 5, 2014