Communist regime has become 'the world's greatest threat to freedom of speech'
(NEWSER) - Securing the release of Ai Weiwei , and the other artists China has arrested and silenced, “is a matter of urgency and the governments of the free world have a clear duty in this matter,” argues Salman Rushdie in an op-ed in today’s New York Times . The charges Ai has supposedly confessed to—like tax evasion and pornography—“are not credible to those who know him,” Rushdie assures us, concluding that the regime is simply silencing the outspoken genius “in the most brutal fashion.” More»
