Scotland police investigating loss of life risk in opposition to JK Rowling after Rushdie stabbing

Police in Scotland stated on Sunday that they're investigating a risk made in opposition to writer J.Okay. Rowling after she condemned the stabbing of Salman Rushdie on Twitter.

The writer of the Harry Potter guide sequence tweeted on Friday that she was "Feeling very sick proper now," in response to the information of the stabbing assault in opposition to Rushdie, a fellow writer. "Let him be okay," she continued. Rowling later shared a screenshot of a threatening tweet she obtained in response that learn, "Don't be concerned you might be subsequent."

"We've obtained a report of an internet risk being made and officers are finishing up enquiries," a spokeswoman for Scotland's police stated on Sunday, in accordance with Reuters.

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Rowling reached out to the social media firm asking for assist after the menacing tweet.

"Twitter Help any change of some assist?" Rowling tweeted, tagging the platform's assist workforce together with screenshots of the interplay.

Rowling added on Friday that "police are concerned (have been already concerned on different threats)."

Rushdie, 75, was stabbed on Friday by a person who rushed the stage as he was getting ready to ship a lecture on inventive freedom in western New York. Rushdie has lived beneath risk since his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses prompted Iran's Ayatollah Rohullah Khomenei to subject a fatwa in opposition to him, urging Muslims to kill him.

Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey is accused of attacking Rushdie and has pleaded not responsible to costs of tried homicide and assault.

Rushdie stays in vital situation, struggling stab wounds within the neck and chest, however he has been taken off a ventilator and is ready to converse just a few phrases, in accordance with his agent.