Lars Hedegaard
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Hedegaard in 2014 | |
| Born | Lars Hedegaard Jensen 19 September 1942 Horsens, Denmark |
| Education | Aarhus University (cand.phil.) University of Copenhagen (cand.mag.) |
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Lars Hedegaard Jensen (born 19 September 1942) is a Danish author, historian, editor, journalist and critic of Islam. He established the International Free Press Society in 2009, an extension of the Danish Free Press Society founded in 2004, of which he served as chairman until 2014. Hedegaard was the target of an assassination attempt in 2013, after which he has lived under police protection.