Suspect named in Salman Rushdie stabbing as author is still in surgery - live
Authors, publishers and government officials around the world have expressed their shock over the attack on authorTony Blair, the former UK prime minister, said: “My thoughts are with Salman and all his family. A horrible and utterly unjustified attack on someone exercising their right to speak, to write and to be true to their convictions in their life and in their art.”I’m utterly horrified by the cowardly attack on Salman Rushdie. I pray for his recovery.
“The criminal attack on Salman Rushdie is an aggression against all literature. Fanaticism will never prevail over the power of literary creation. My most profound solidarity goes out to him,”William Nygaard, the Norwegian publisher who was shot in 1993 after publishing Rushdie’s worker said the author has paid a “high price”. “He is a leading author who has meant so much to literature, and he had found a good life in the United States,” he said.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, called the attack “shocking and appalling”. “It is an attack on freedom of speech and thought, which are two bedrock values of our country and of the Chautauqua Institution,” he said. “I hope Mr Rushdie quickly and fully recovers and the perpetrator experiences full accountability and justice.”Shocked and appalled to hear of the unprovoked and senseless attack on Sir Salman Rushdie.
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