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suzanne nossel is the chief executive of the free expression organisation pen america. colleague of salman rushdie who partnered with her to help champion persecuted writers worldwide. i asked her reaction to the attack. this absolutely stunned and horrified. salman is actively involved in pen, a frequent and reliable presence at so many of our events. he is a frequent speaker who has moved around freely in new york city for decades at this point, so for this to happen in broad daylight, a premeditated attack, so brutal, clearly intended to kill, lethal, was just a shock to the conscience for all of us. an attack on sir salman but also an attack on free speech. absolutely. he is not the only endangered writer. we document an annual freedom to write index at pen america. there were 277 writers imprisoned over the last year. salman is a great champion of other writers who are in peril because of the crime of expressing themselves and telling stories, of speaking the truth, as they see it. and so this is emblematic, in our minds, of a threat to free expression worldwide an