August 12, 2022; 20 months ago (2022-08-12) c. 10:47 am[2] (EDT)
Target
Salman Rushdie
Attack type
Stabbing
Deaths
0
Injured
2
(Salman Rushdie and Henry Reese)
Arrests
1
Motive
Shia Islamic extremism[3] (possible attempted realization of fatwa against Rushdie)
Accused
Hadi Matar
Charges
Attempted second-degree murder
second-degree assault
On August 12, 2022, novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times as he was about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States.[4][5][6] A 24-year-old suspect, Hadi Matar, was arrested directly and charged the following day with assault and attempted murder. Rushdie was gravely wounded and hospitalized. Interviewer Henry Reese was also injured by the attacker.
Rushdie, an Indian-born British-American, has been threatened with death since 1989, a year after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, when the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his assassination and set a bounty of $3 million for his death. For years, Rushdie had lived in hiding, taking strict security measures that gradually became more relaxed over time.
The government of Iran denied having foreknowledge of the stabbing, although state-controlled agencies of the Iranian media celebrated it. U.S. law enforcement is investigating whether the assailant was in contact with other extremists.
Rushdie’s memoir about the attack, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, was released on April 16, 2024.
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^The New Arab Staff & Agencies (August 13, 2022). "Salman Rushdie attacker 'sympathetic to Shia extremism'". The New Arab. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
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