The British-Indian author Salman Rushdie is due to address the Jaipur literature festival in India via video link on January 24.
Hours before Rushdie’s speech, the director of Asia’s largest literature festival received a death threat.
There has been controversy over Rusdie’s participation in the festival.
Rushdie earlier withdrew from the festival, saying that sources had told him of an assassination threat.
He later said he had been lied to about the threat.
Many Muslims regard his book, “The Satanic Verses,” as blasphemous. It is banned in India.
In 1989, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa death sentence against Rushdie over the book.
The Iranian government later lifted the fatwa.
compiled from agency reports
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