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Attempted second-degree murder. second-degree assault. On August 12, 2022, novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times as he was about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States. [4] [5] [6] A 24-year-old suspect, Hadi Matar, was arrested directly and charged the following day with ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a frenzied knife attack in western New York was motivated by a Hezbollah leader's endorsement of a fatwa calling for ...
Author Salman Rushdie, behind screen left, is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y. (Joshua Goodman/)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Man who attacked author Salman Rushdie on stage in New York is charged with supporting terrorist group.
A man has been taken into custody after Sir Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage in New York state. The 75-year-old Indian-born British author, whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the ...
Rushdie detailed the attack and his long and painful recovery in a memoir published in April. The author spent years in hiding after the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa, or edict, in 1989 calling for Rushdie's death over his novel “The Satanic Verses.” Khomeini considered the book blasphemous.
Hadi Matar, 25, will begin trial on Jan. 8. Matar who is accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of ...
And then came the attack in 2022, which lasted just 27 seconds but left Rushdie severely injured. All the tendons and most of the nerves in his left hand were severed, and his right eye is ...