LONDON (AP) - Dozens of
renowned British writers came out against new anti-terrorism legislation
Sunday, publishing a collection of satire, essays, fiction and poetry to
protest a proposal allowing police to hold suspects without charge for up
to 42 daysForty-two authors including Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, Ian
Rankin, Alain de Botton, and A.L. Kennedy contributed to a collection
posted online a day ahead of a critical parliamentary vote on the issue.
Ali, who won widespread acclaim for her first novel "Brick Lane," wrote
a satirical dialogue between a grandmother and a child who asks if it’s
true that "in the olden days" if police arrested you "they had to say what
you’d done wrong?"
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