British writer Salman Rushdie is the author of the controversial book “The Satanic Verses”, a work that made him the target of a fatwa – a legal pronouncement by a religious leader against an individual – by Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1989.
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According to initial information, the writer was attacked on stage at an event in western New York this Friday (12). CNN reported that Salman was “apparently stabbed in the neck.” (🇬🇧) (I.e.
Rushdie was taken by helicopter to a local hospital, police said. His health condition is unknown.
An interviewer at the event also suffered a minor head injury, police said. A man on stage was seen “punching or stabbing” the novelist before the event, according to an AP reporter who witnessed the attack.
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Source: AFP
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