Salman Rushdie

Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck by a man who rushed the stage ...

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Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New ...

That year, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa. In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced.

Writer who spent years in hiding after Iranian fatwa was to speak about freedom of expression.

A man rushed to the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and attacked Salman Rushdie, 75, as he was being introduced to give a talk on artistic freedom to an ...

Earlier in the morning, Rushdie had emailed her to help with relocating Ukrainian writers seeking refuge, she said. A New York State Police trooper present at the event took the attacker into custody, police said. He has been a fierce critic of religion across the spectrum. Rushdie published a memoir about his life under the fatwa called “Joseph Anton,” the pseudonym he used while under British police protection. A New York State Police trooper present at the event took the attacker into custody, police said. Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of the novel, was murdered in 1991.

The late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's supreme religious leader, pronounced a fatwa, or religious edict, on the writer on February 14, 1989, calling on ...

A man rushed to the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and attacked Rushdie as he was being introduced, the witness said, adding the attacker was subsequently restrained. Author Salman Rushdie, who was ordered killed by Iran in 1989 because of his writing, was attacked on stage at an event in New York, a witness told Reuters. Author Salman Rushdie attacked on stage in New York

British author Salman Rushdie, whose writings made him the target of Iranian death threats that forced him into hiding, was attacked on stage.

He was granted police protection by the government in Britain, where he was at school and where he made his home, following the murder or attempted murder of his translators and publishers. The fatwa failed to stifle Rushdie's writing, however, and inspired his memoir "Joseph Anton", named after his alias while in hiding and written in the third person. Video footage posted on social media showed people rushing to his aid after he was attacked at the event in Chautauqua County, with police confirming a stabbing while declining to immediately identify the victim.

An assailant attacked the famed author at an event in Chautauqua, New York on Friday morning. Rushdie's condition is not yet clear.

Rita Landman, an endocrinologist who was in the audience and offered assistance, said that Mr. Rushdie had multiple stab wounds, including one to the right side of his neck, and that there was a pool of blood under his body. The fatwa also applied to anyone involved in publishing the book. The assailant, who has not been identified, was subdued and detained by police. “Within about 15 seconds, someone jumped onstage and began to pound Mr. Rushdie,” Savenor said. Rushdie was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua when a man rushed the stage and attacked him, the Associated Press reports. Governor Kathy Hochul said at an afternoon event that he is alive and credited a state trooper with saving him.

Updated August 12, 2022 at 2:11 PM ET. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born author who received death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday morning ...

The suspect was immediately taken into custody and Rushdie was transported to a local hospital. Police said a male suspect charged the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer at approximately 11 a.m. ET. Rushdie was transported to a local hospital by helicopter with an apparent stab wound to the neck, police said.

Salman Rushdie was attacked at a Chautauqua Institution panel in western New York on Friday.

Rushdie was the former president of PEN America, a nonprofit that defends freedom of expression and supports persecuted writers. Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" forced him into hiding after it was banned in Iran and a $3 million bounty was put on his head. A State Trooper assigned to the event immediately took the suspect into custody." "Rushdie suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck, and was transported by helicopter to an area hospital. "On August 12, 2022, at about 11 a.m., a male suspect ran up onto the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer," the statement read. A state trooper who was present took the suspect into custody with the assistance of a local sheriff's deputy.

Arts event interrupted by screams as people rushed to render aid to the novelist and subdue his assailant.

Rushdie, who was born in Mumbai and then worked in Britain, was forced into hiding. As members of the audience screamed, people ran to tackle the attacker and render aid to Rushdie, who had been apparently stabbed several times, including in the neck. The book was banned in many countries.

Salman Rushdie, the author of "The Satanic Verses," was brutally attacked just as he was about to speak to an audience at the Chautauqua Institution.

Updated August 12, 2022 at 2:53 PM ET. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born author who received death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday morning ...

The suspect was immediately taken into custody and Rushdie was transported to a local hospital. Police said a male suspect charged the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer at approximately 11 a.m. ET. Rushdie was transported to a local hospital by helicopter with an apparent stab wound to the neck, police said.

Police had said: "A male suspect ran up onto the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer. Rushdie suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck, and was ...

Rushdie, 75, was taken by helicopter to a hospital but police said his condition was not yet known. Earlier, media reports have suggested that a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and began assaulting Rushdie as he was being introduced. Rushdie suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck, and was transported by helicopter to an area hospital. He was granted police protection by the government in Britain, where he was at school and where he made his home, following the murder or attempted murder of his translators and publishers. Police had said: "A male suspect ran up onto the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer. Police said Salman Rushdie suffered a stab wound to the neck when he was attacked on stage Friday, adding the British author's condition was not known and the suspect was taken into custody.

Hadi Matar, 24, in custody after author of Satanic Verses was stabbed at literary event in western New York.

Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, said on Friday evening that he was put on a ventilator and had suffered significant injuries: “The news is not good. Spectators and institution staffers rushed Matar and tackled him after the stabbing, Staniszewski added. Rushdie, 75, was about to speak at a literary festival hosted by the Chautauqua Institution late in the morning when Matar allegedly rushed on stage and stabbed him at least once in the neck and the stomach, Maj Eugene Staniszewski of New York state police major said.

Just as the mind recoils at the sight of a single book burned, the spilled blood of an author inspires revulsion.

In some ways, he never stopped fighting the debate that first ignited around the fatwa, with some defending him unreservedly and others arguing that perhaps his perceived insult of Islam was a mistake and a needless provocation on his part. Rushdie himself has become something of an absolutist on the freedom of expression. Rushdie has not been targeted by his own state, of course—after living in hiding for years in London, he has lived openly in New York for the past two decades. The Yiddish poets and writers whom the dictator ordered shot in the basement of the Lubyanka prison. That it was here that Rushdie was struck repeatedly with a knife is a terrible irony. He was about to speak to an audience at the Chautauqua Institution, a cottage community that was founded in the late 19th century as a place for religious learning, and that has since become an oasis of education and discussion every summer.

Friday's knife attack on Salman Rushdie comes more than 33 years after the fatwa against him by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, ...

For almost 13 years he moved between safe houses under the pseudonym of Joseph Anton, changing base 56 times in the first six months. Some 20 countries went on to outlaw it. He then realises his error. After many years living in the shadows, he became something of a socialite and is seen by many in the West as a free speech hero. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream." In a fatwa, or religious decree, Khomeini urged "Muslims of the world rapidly to execute the author and the publishers of the book" so that "no one will any longer dare to offend the sacred values of Islam."

The Satanic Verses author was stabbed in the neck and abdomen at an event in New York state.

"Salman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world. There has been no reaction from the Iranian government to Mr Rushdie's stabbing. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution. A doctor in the audience gave Mr Rushdie first aid. A year after the book's release, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Mr Rushdie's execution. He was taken to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, by helicopter.

"Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged," said agent Andrew Wylie, who added that as of ...

We hope and believe fervently that his essential voice cannot and will not be silenced." Another witness, John Stein, told ABC that the assailant "started stabbing on the right side of the head, of the neck. Police said Rushdie was stabbed in the neck as well as the abdomen. "What I saw today was the essence of intolerance." "Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged," said agent Andrew Wylie, who added that as of now Rushdie cannot speak. "Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged," said agent Andrew Wylie, who added that as of now Rushdie cannot speak.

Agent says author 'will likely lose one eye', has severed nerves in his arm and his liver was stabbed.

“I felt like we needed to have more protection there because Salman Rushdie is not a usual writer,” said Anour Rahmani, an Algerian writer and human rights activist who was in the audience. Rushdie published a memoir in 2012 about his cloistered, secretive life under the fatwa called “Joseph Anton,” the pseudonym he used while in British police protection. Fars called Rushdie an apostate who “insulted the prophet” in its report on Friday's attack. The Iranian government said in 1998 it would no longer back the fatwa, and Rushdie has lived relatively openly in recent years. A doctor in the audience helped tend to Rushdie while emergency services arrived, police said. “The news is not good,” Andrew Wylie, his book agent, wrote in an email.