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Salman Rushdie testifies at knife attacker's US terror trial

In a seeming effort to scrutinize how much the fatwa was on anyone’s mind by 12 August 2022, the defense also has asked some witnesses about the relatively…

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Federal prosecutors say Matar was acting on such a threat: an Iranian leader’s 1989 call for Rushdie’s death because of his novel The Satanic Verses. “I can’t say what his ambitions or his aim was, but the wounds were dispersed across my body,” Rushdie testified. Prosecutors say Matar was animated partly by comments that a former Hezbollah leader, the late Hassan Nasrallah, made about Rushdie and the fatwa in 2006. NEW YORK: Novelist Salman Rushdie on Thursday testified at the federal trial of the man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural centre in 2022.

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Federal prosecutors say Matar was acting on such a threat: an Iranian leader’s 1989 call for Rushdie’s death because of his novel The Satanic Verses. “I can’t say what his ambitions or his aim was, but the wounds were dispersed across my body,” Rushdie testified.
according to The Guardian - UK
Prosecutors say Matar was animated partly by comments that a former Hezbollah leader, the late Hassan Nasrallah, made about Rushdie and the fatwa in 2006.
according to The Guardian - UK
NEW YORK: Novelist Salman Rushdie on Thursday testified at the federal trial of the man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural centre in 2022
according to New Straits Times