LONDON (AP) — Free speech is under threat, prominent writers said Friday, after a British court halted the publication of a well-known performer’s memoir of child abuse because his ex-wife argued that it would harm their son.

Last week, three appeals court judges in London granted an injunction stopping the publication of the book, which has already been printed, pending a full trial scheduled for April.

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