“The news is not good,” Salman Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, said in an email to 'The New York Times.' “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.”
Responding to a request for comment, a media contact for Chautauqua, a renowned summer arts and culture resort in Western New York, said, “Chautauqua Institution is currently coordinating with law enforcement and emergency officials on a public response following today’s attack of Salman Rushdie on the Chautauqua
Amphitheater stage. We will provide more details as we know them.” A representative for the Chautauqua Institution Police Department said they did not have any information to provide.a novel, was banned in Iran after its 1988, considered blasphemous, and in 1989, Iran’s then-leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering the
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