On Friday, AUTHOR Salman Rushdie was reportedly stabbed on stage at Chautauqua Institution in New York prior to delivering a lecture, years after the British author received international death threats.
On Friday, the author was reportedly attacked while giving a speech at the Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter who was there at the event stated that when Salman Rushdie was being introduced, a man seized the stage and began attacking him.
The author instantly collapsed to the ground, and the person holding him back was restrained.
Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and taken to the hospital by medical helicopter.
As a result of the attack, Rushdie was knocked unconscious and fell through a stage barrier; witnesses informed the Washington Post that they observed blood on the author’s hand.
It was not immediately clear what condition Salman Rushdie was in, and the lone male suspect who carried out the attack was taken into custody by the police.
In the 1980s, the Iranian government issued murder threats against Rushdie as a result of his writing, and in 1988, the country outlawed the publication of his novel “The Satanic Verses.”
On Friday, it was unknown what motivated the assault, and the authorities have not been able to determine who the perpetrator was.
