Literary institution where Salman Rushdie was attacked ramps up security

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Chautauqua Institution, the bucolic New York retreat where Salman Rushdie was attacked last week, has added new security measures, including requiring photo identification and passing through metal detectors prior to entering its venues. Rushdie, 75, was set to deliver a lecture on artistic freedom at the western New York venue last week when a man rushed the stage and stabbed the Indian-born writer. Rushdie has lived with a bounty on his head since his novel "The Satanic Verses" was published in 1988 and prompted Iran's then supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, to issue a fatwa urging Muslims to kill him.