Hadi Matar, 24, in custody after author of Satanic Verses was stabbed at literary event in western New York
A doctor who was attending Rushdie’s speech treated the wounded author until a helicopter crew could fly him to a hospital, where he underwent surgery.on Friday evening that he was put on a ventilator and had suffered significant injuries: “The news is not good. Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.”
Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses – centering on two Indian Muslims living in England – has been banned inStaniszewski said police had not determined a motive for Matar’s alleged attack on Rushdie, though agents with the FBI had arrived to assist local and state officials with their investigation into the stabbing that had made international headlines.
Law enforcement officers detain a person outside the Chautauqua Institution where Salman Rushdie was attacked on Friday.Many have noted that Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for Rushdie’s death in 1989, with a bounty of more than $3m being offered for anyone who killed the author., citing law enforcement sources, reported that Matar was sympathetic toward the Iranian government. Police have not yet announced a motive.
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