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The Sun newspaper slammed for platforming JK Rowling's abusive ex-husband
Harry Potter author JK Rowling

THE SUN newspaper was today condemned for printing a front page that gave a platform to JK Rowling’s abusive ex-husband.

Charities and feminist groups spoke out against the front page that had the headline “I slapped JK and I am not sorry.”

The newspaper had sent reporters to Porto, in Portugal, where Ms Rowling had lived with her ex Jorge Arantes in the 1990s, before she fled to Edinburgh with daughter Jessica who was then a baby.

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