Salman Rushdie took the stand on Tuesday morning in the trial of the man accused of trying to kill him and revealed how he believed he was about to die just after the harrowing knife attack.
The celebrated Indian-born British-American author has faced death threats since his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses was declared blasphemous by Iran’s then-supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. On 12 August 2022, he was stabbed more than a dozen times in a frenzied knife attack, in front of a lecture audience at Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater, an assault that left him blind in one eye.
