Salman Rushdie Says America Is ‘Having a Very Difficult Moment’ With Free Speech as He Accepts Liberatum Award: ‘The Burden of Proof Must Always Lie on the Censor’

By Naman Ramachandran

Naman Ramachandran

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Salman Rushdie warned that free expression in the U.S. is under sustained pressure from the Trump administration as he accepted the Liberatum Cultural Honor at Camden Town Hall at King’s Cross in London, the same building where he once worked on community relations before becoming one of the world’s most recognized novelists.

The conversation was moderated by Michael Harris, director of programming at Camden Town Hall, who has spent more than 20 years building platforms for free expression and public debate, including founding Guardian Live at The Guardian and serving as editorial director at CogX.

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