Booker-winning author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to speak, a day after being attacked in New York.
The author’s agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed the news to US media. But earlier he said, Salman may lose one of his eyes.
For years he had been under threat from radical Islamists for The Satanic Verses, published in 1988. He was attacked during an event in New York on Friday. After the attack, police arrested a 24-year-old man named Hadi Matar, a Lebanese-American citizen.
A case of attempted murder has been filed against the attacker of Salman Rushdie in the United States. The prosecutor of Chautauqua County in the state of New York said that the attacker, named Hadi Matar, pleaded not guilty, but the court ordered him to be sent to prison without granting bail.
New York Police Major Eugene Staniszewski said Salman Rushdie was on stage preparing to give a speech when Hadi Matar rushed to the stage and stabbed Rushdie in the neck and stomach. Interviewer Henry Ridge, who was on stage with him, suffered a minor head injury. He was taken to a local hospital.
