Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator and unable to speak after being stabbed before a lecture: 'Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged'
is on a ventilator after being attacked as he was about to deliver a lecture in western New York on Friday.Friday evening, “The news is not good.” Wylie said the author is on a ventilator and cannot speak. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.”A statement from New York State Police said: “On August 12 2022, at about 11am, a male suspect ran up on to the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer.
Rushdie suffered death threats for years after writing “The Satanic Verses” . The book has been banned in Iran since then and a $3.3 million bounty remains on the author’s head. He wrote a book about being in hiding with a price upon his head titled “Joseph Anton,” the pseudonym he used while being underground.
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