Salman Rushdie suspected attacker charged with attempted murder
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A New York court in the United States charged the man suspected of stabbing Salman Rushdie at a literary event with attempted murder on Saturday for the attack on the author, who remains hospitalized in serious condition, reports AFP.
The British author was stabbed approximately 10 times, prosecutors said during an arraignment of the New Jersey man, according to the New York Times.
The assault on Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses” and “Midnight’s Children,” triggered international outrage but drew applause from Islamist hardliners in Iran and Pakistan.
Rushdie, who lived in hiding for years after Iran’s first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered his killing, underwent emergency surgery and was placed on a ventilator in a Pennsylvania hospital following Friday’s assault.
He will likely lose an eye, according to his agent, Andrew Wylie, who said Saturday the author had started to talk again, according to the Times.
President Joe Biden on Saturday called it a ‘vicious’ attack and offered prayers for Rushdie’s recovery.
“Salman Rushdie — with his insight into humanity, with his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced — stands for essential, universal ideals. Truth. Courage. Resilience,” Biden said in a statement.
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