A grand jury has indicted the person who stabbed Salman Rushdie because the acclaimed creator ready to provide a chat in western New York, county prosecutors mentioned Thursday.
Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, is scheduled to seem on the costs at a day courtroom listening to in Chautauqua County. Matar was arrested Aug. 12 after he rushed the stage on the Chautauqua Establishment, stabbing Rushdie a number of instances in entrance of a horrified crowd.
Preliminary fees have been filed the following day, when Matar's court-appointed lawyer entered a not responsible plea on his behalf. The prosecutor's workplace didn't instantly launch the brand new fees.
Rushdie, 75, is getting remedy in a Pennsylvania hospital for extreme wounds. His literary agent, Andrew Wylie, has mentioned Rushdie a broken liver and severed nerves in an arm, and will lose a watch.
Rushdie's life has been in jeopardy since 1989 when Iran's supreme chief on the time, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued an edict demanding his loss of life over his novel "The Satanic Verses," which was seen as blasphemous by many Muslims.
A semiofficial Iranian basis had posted a bounty of over $3 million.
Chautauqua County District Lawyer Jason Schmidt referred to as the assault "preplanned."
The creator had simply taken the stage on the usually tranquil lakeside retreat for a dialogue of protections for writers in exile and freedom of expression when Matar jumped onstage.
Henry Reese, 73, the cofounder of Pittsburgh's Metropolis of Asylum, was onstage with Rushdie and suffered a gash to his brow, bruising and different minor accidents.