Salam Rushdie [ActuaLitté_CC BY-SA 2.0]

• MORE than 30 years ago, in the struggle of free thinkers against censorship, the brave writer Salman Rushdie advised the British Board of Film Classification to pass a melodrama titled International Guerrillas, which luridly dramatised him being hunted down and machine-gunned, when the BBFC were seeking to ban the video.

And thus his exploratory and profound insights through literature must triumph over the malevolent violence attempting to prevent his (and our) freedom to voice our perceptions of the world.

MIKE BOR
British Board of Film Classification
Examiner 1984-2000