Lund Wants to End Criticized Author's Sanctuary

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The politicians in Lund's culture and leisure committee want to end the collaboration with their sanctuary writer Bisan Edwan. Her support for Hamas became too controversial. But the politicians are being harshly criticized for a lack of respect for freedom of expression. - Punishing a writer for his opinions is not a way to protect democracy, it is a threat to it, Edwan himself writes in Sydsvenskan.

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Politicians on Lund's cultural committee are proposing that the municipality should terminate cooperation with the sanctuary author Bissan Edwan. The announcement comes after revelations that the author had praised the October 7 attack. “Punishing an author for his opinions is not a way to protect democracy, but a threat to it,” says Bissan Edwan.

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The political leadership of Lund's Culture and Leisure Committee proposes that author Bissan Edwan's sanctuary scholarship be terminated prematurely.