British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie is recovering from Friday’s stabbing. He should no longer be artificially ventilated and able to talk again. Police are investigating the man who assaulted him on suspicion of attempted murder and second-degree assault.
Rushdie is being treated at a hospital in Ernie, Pennsylvania, according to American media. This is adjacent to New York where his lecture was supposed to have been delivered and the writer was attacked with a knife by a 24-year-old on Friday. Now Rushdie’s condition has improved, as reported by his literary agent Andrew Wylie. He is no longer artificially ventilated and can talk again. Rushdie’s fellow writer, Aatish Taseer, wrote that the author was joking.
No information about motif
Meanwhile, police are investigating the attacker, who pleaded innocent in a New York court. There was no further information about his motive. The man is charged with attempted murder and attempted murder. Second-degree murder is a separate offense in the US criminal justice system for the death of a human, which carries years of imprisonment.
Salman Rushdie was due to speak about persecuted artists on Friday, but was attacked in Chautauqua prior to the event. The 75-year-old has been persecuted by religious fanatics for decades. In 1988, then-Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for the author’s death because of the work “The Satanic Verses”.
“Decades of Incitement”
Celebrities and politicians from around the world condemned the knife attack and wished Rushdie a speedy recovery. Israeli Prime Minister Jair Lapid also blamed the Iranian leadership for the attack. The incident was “the result of decades of incitement led by the extremist regime in Tehran,” he wrote on Twitter on Saturday night.
Source: Krone
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