Salman Rushdie’s suspected stabbing attacker in custody
Salman Rushdie’s suspected stabbing attacker is in custody. The ‘Satanic Verses’ writer, 75, was knifed several times from behind including in the neck on Friday (12.08.22) in New York after decades of death threats for the writer’s controversial novel. His alleged attacker stormed the stage where the novelist was giving a speech at the Chautauqua Institution. Horror broke out as the Indian-born writer was being introduced and a man ran on stage and began stabbing him in the neck. Pictures from the scene showed Rushdie lying on the stage as a crowd surrounds him. Blood could be seen splattered...