Mayville, NY – Lawyers should have delivered the introduction of introductory statements on Monday at the trial The man accused of trying to Fatal Jig Author Salman Rushdie in front of the Lecture Audience in Western New York.
Rushdie, 77, will be witnessed during the Hadi Matar trial, by bringing a writer face to face with his knife attacker for the first time in more than two years.
Rushdie, who wrote “Midnight Children” and “Victory City,” he talked about keeping writers safe from the damage in August 2022. year when Matar headed for him on stage in the Amphitheater Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater. Matar broke out Rushdie more than a dozen times in his neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye, leaving it partially blind and with permanent damage to one hand.
Indian Born British-American author is a detailed attack and his debt, painful recovery in memoir“Knife: Meditations after and attempted murder,” Published last year.
Matar, 27. Failview, New Jersey, charged with attempted murder and attack. He pleaded not guilty. The jury was chosen last week. Matar was in court during the three-day process, also recorded counseling with their lawyers.
Once the testimony is in progress, the trial is expected to last a week to 10 days. The jurors will show video and photos from the day of the attack, which they ended up when they looked hurried, Matar and held it while the police did not arrive. The moderator of the event, Henry Reese, co-founder of the city asylum in Pittsburgh is also wounded.
Matar told investigators traveling by bus for Chautauqua, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) south of buffalo. He is believed to have slept in the reasons for the art and academic withdrawal of the night before the attack.
Matar lawyer did not indicate what his defense would be.
In Separate indictmentFederal authorities based on Matar motivated the approval of the Terrorist Organization of Fatwa or EDICT, referring to Rushdie’s death. Later trial of federal charges – terrorism exceeds national borders, providing material support to terrorists and tries to ensure material support to the terrorist organization – will be scheduled in the US District Court in Buffalo.
Rushdie spent years in hiding after the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued by Fatwa 1989. Years Through the novel Rushdie, “Satanic verses”, which some Muslims consider blasphemous.
In the Federal Indictment, they claim that the Edict was supported by the EDIT that the Militant Group based on Lebanon and supported the Group Speech for 2006. year Tadish Group leaders, Hassan Nasrallah.
2025-02-10 12:30:00
