Sir, – The attack on Sir Salman Rushdie illustrates the awesome price which sometimes has to be paid for exercising one’s right to freedom of expression.
It should prompt everyone to be ever-vigilant in ensuring that in every context and in every public discourse in which they find themselves this right is universally respected.
This would also be an appropriate way of acknowledging the renowned author’s remarkable courage and integrity as he not only exercises this right but continues to be a champion of it. – Yours, etc,
J ANTHONY GAUGHAN,
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President,
Irish PEN,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.
