Fans of Salman Rushdie from across the globe express solidarity on Twitter

Twitter users have posted videos of them reading Sir Salman Rushdie’s work aloud in support of the author (Francisco Goldman/Sacha Langton-Gilks/PA)

Fellow writers and fans of Salman Rushdie from across the globe have used social media to “take a stand” and express solidarity a week after the author was stabbed.

Twitter users from Mexico City and Miami to the Channel Islands and Madrid have recorded themselves reading Mr Rushdie’s books aloud as friends and colleagues gathered on the steps of the New York Public Library on Friday to read excerpts from his work and to defend the freedom to write.