The man accused of attacking author Salman Rushdie appeared in court Saturday and was charged with attempted murder and assault. An attorney for Hadi Matar, 24, entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, the Associated Press reported. Matar was ordered held in the Chautauqua County Jail without bail, Reuters said. Chautauqua County District Attorney …
Author Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator after a stabbing attack Friday morning in western New York and may lose an eye. “The news is not good,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, said in an update on his condition to the New York Times. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were …
Author Salman Rushdie is undergoing surgery in New York after a 24-year-old New Jersey man jumped onto a stage where he was speaking and stabbed him in the neck. Rushdie’s condition was not known, although a doctor who had been in the audience at the Chautauqua Institution described the writer’s wounds as “serious but recoverable.” …
Author Salman Rushdie was reportedly stabbed in the neck while on stage at an event in New York on Friday. According to the Associated Press, an unknown assailant rushed the stage at Chautauqua Institution and confronted Rushdie, 75, before punching or stabbing him 10 or 15 times. The man was apprehended after Rushdie was spotted being …
