Author Salman Rushdie speaks during the opening news conference of the Frankfurt book fair, Germany October 13, 2015. REUTERS/RALPH ORLOWSKI
New York Times: Iran’s Hard-Line Press Adds to Bounty on Salman Rushdie
TEHRAN — A group of hard-line Iranian news media organizations says it has raised $600,000 to add to a bounty for the killing of the British novelist Salman Rushdie.
Iran’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, in 1989 calling for Mr. Rushdie to be killed because of his book “The Satanic Verses,” which the ayatollah found to be blasphemous and insulting toward Muslims. Mr. Rushdie has since then been living largely out of sight and under the protection of bodyguards.
The semiofficial Fars news agency, one of the organizations involved, reported that the new reward money was gathered during a trade fair called the Islamic Republic’s Digital Media Exhibition. It quoted the secretary of the exhibition saying that the $600,000 had been announced last week to mark the anniversary of the 1989 fatwa.
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Update #1: Salman Rushdie: Iranian media raise more money for fatwa (The Guardian)
Update #2: Iranian media outlets add to bounty for killing Britain's Rushdie (Reuters)
WNU Editor: Western law enforcement should indict the Iranian officials who are behind this "bounty".