Law enforcement officers detain a person outside the Chautauqua Institution where Salman Rushdie was attacked on Friday. The exact charges against Matar, who had bought a ticket to Friday’s talk, would also depend on Rushdie’s condition following the stabbing. Staniszewski said police had not determined a motive for Matar’s alleged attack on Rushdie, though agents with the FBI had arrived to assist local and state officials with their investigation into the stabbing that had made international headlines. Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses – centering on two Indian Muslims living in England – has been banned in Iran since 1988, with many Muslims considering it to be blasphemous. The speaker introducing Rushdie, 73-year-old Ralph Henry Reese, was treated and released for what Staniszewski described as a relatively minor facial injury. Salman will likely lose one eye the nerves in his arm were severed and his liver was stabbed and damaged.” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, said on Friday evening that he was put on a ventilator and had suffered significant injuries: “The news is not good. A doctor who was attending Rushdie’s speech treated the wounded author until a helicopter crew could fly him to a hospital, where he underwent surgery.
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