Man who attacked writer Salman Rushdie to be charged with tried homicide – Muricas News

Hadi Matar, 24, who attacked author Salman Rushdie, was taken to the Chautauka County Jail (Kansas, USA). He's arrested for tried homicide within the 2nd diploma and assault within the 2nd diploma. On Saturday, August 13, he shall be charged.

The motives for Matar’s actions haven't but been formally named.

Earlier, a legislation enforcement official instructed NBC News that, in response to an evaluation of the actions of the detainee on social networks, Hadi Matar has sympathy for Shiite extremists and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. On the identical time, he didn't have any contacts with the IRGC.

Salman Rushdie, who was the sufferer of the assault, might lose an eye fixed, in response to the author’s literary agent Andrew Wylie. “The information is dangerous. Salman is more likely to lose one eye; severed nerves in his arm; stabbed liver broken,” Wylie stated. Rushdie is on a ventilator, in response to an agent cited by Reuters.

Recall that on August 12, Rushdie was making ready to present a lecture on the Chautauqua Institute in western New York, and he was already being launched to the general public when a person jumped onto the stage and attacked the author.

He stabbed the author a number of instances with a knife. Rushdie fell. The attacker was arrested.

Rushdie was carried out of the constructing on a stretcher and brought to the hospital.

Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in India. In Iran, he's thought-about a blasphemer. His novel The Satanic Verses has been banned from publication. In 1989, the then Supreme Chief of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa calling for the author to be punished with demise. There was a $3 million reward for Rushdie’s homicide.

The state of affairs round Rushdie led the UK and Iran to interrupt off diplomatic relations in March 1989, and since then Rushdie has been pressured to stay below police safety. 9 years later, relations between the nations have been restored, however Iran stated that it will neither fulfill nor cancel the fatwa.