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Activists Accuse Iran of Responsibility for Rushdie Attack

Iran's rulers bear responsibility for the attack against the British writer Salman Rushdie as the Islamic republic never repudiated a 1989 order issued by its founder calling for the novelist to be killed, activists and opponents charged Saturday. While the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini over Rushdie's novel "The…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Utterly horrified and shocked': Tharoor on Rushdie attack

The writer was stabbed by a New Jersey resident identified as Hadi Matar on stage in Western New York.

The Hindu

Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing

Salman Rushdie's agent says the writer is on a ventilator after being stabbed in the neck and abdomen on a western New York stage where he was about to give a lecture

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Salman Rushdie attack: What we know so far

Author Rushdie is on ventilator and could lose an eye following a stabbing attack at a literary event in New York state.

Al Jazeera

What is a fatwa? Salman Rushdie’s backstory moves center stage after attack

After Salman Rushdie was attacked as he began a lecture Friday in western New York, it was a potent reminder that an Islamic leader had issued a high-profile edict calling for the writer’s death in reaction to his 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses.”

Los Angeles Times

Police identify Salman Rushdie attack suspect as 24-year-old from New Jersey

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

The Guardian - US

Salman Rushdie Stabbed at Upstate N.Y. Lecture, by Man "with Sympathies Toward Iranian Government"

The suspect has apparently just been identified as Hadi Matar; the N.Y. Sun (Joe Marino & Evan Simko-Bednarski) reports, A New Jersey man with sympathies toward the Iranian government was arrested and accused of stabbing famed novelist Salman Rushdie on Friday, according to law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation….…

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Salman Rushdie stabbing suspect ID'd as author still in surgery after brutal attack

The Satanic Verses novelist Sir Salman Rushdie's alleged attacker has reportedly been identified as 24-year-old Hadi Matar, from Fairview, New Jersey, by three law enforcement sources

Daily Mirror

Hadi Matar arrested for stabbing Salman Rushdie in neck in horror New York attack

Author spent years in hiding after a ‘fatwa’ was issued by the Iranian supreme leader in 1988

The Independent UK

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