Stabbed author Salman Rushdie ‘on the road to recovery,’ agent says
Salman Rushdie is “on the road to recovery,” his agent confirmed Aug. 14, two days after the acclaimed British author suffered serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in New York.
Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty Aug. 13 to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called “a targeted, unprovoked, preplanned attack” at western New York’s Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education center.
The 75-year-old Indian-born writer has lived with a bounty on his head following the publication of his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, which is viewed by some Muslims as containing blasphemous passages. In 1989, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for his assassination.
Authors, activists and government officials cited Rushdie’s bravery and longtime championing of free speech in the face of intimidation. Writer and longtime friend Ian McEwan labeled Rushdie “an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists.” (AP, Reuters)
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