UK reacts to ‘appalling’ attack on Rushdie, freedom of expression

Updated: Aug 13 2022 3:13PM

London, Aug 13 (PTI) Prime Minister Boris Johnson was among several senior politicians and authors in the UK who took to social media to express their shock at the “appalling” attack on Booker Prize-winning author Sir Salman Rushdie, condemning the stabbing in New York as an attack on freedom of expression.

“Appalled that Sir Salman Rushdie has been stabbed while exercising a right we should never cease to defend,” tweeted Johnson.

“Right now my thoughts are with his loved ones. We are all hoping he is okay,” he said.

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