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The Hindu · Aug 13, 2022

Salman Rushdie stabbing: Assailant identified as Hadi Mattar, an Islamist with pro-Iran views

WASHINGTON: Law enforcement authorities in New York on Friday identified author Salman Rushdie's assailant as 24-year-old Hadi Matar from New Jersey, believed, on the basis of his social media posts, to be a supporter of fundamentalist forces in Iran which initiated a fatwa on the writer in 1988.

The Times of India · Aug 13, 2022

Salman Rushdie stabbing: Assailant identified as Hadi Matar, an Islamist with pro-Iran views

WASHINGTON: Law enforcement authorities in New York on Friday identified author Salman Rushdie's assailant as 24-year-old Hadi Matar from New Jersey, believed, on the basis of his social media posts, to be a supporter of fundamentalist forces in Iran which initiated a fatwa on the writer in 1988.

The Times of India · Aug 13, 2022

Salman Rushdie may lose eye, is on ventilator, agent says

Author Salman Rushdie will likely lose an eye and suffered severed nerves in an arm and damage to his liver after he was stabbed on Friday, his agent said, adding that Rushdie was on a ventilator.

Reuters · Aug 12, 2022

Police identify Salman Rushdie attack suspect as 24-year-old from New Jersey

Hadi Matar, 24, in custody after author of Satanic Verses was stabbed at literary event in western New York

The Guardian - US · Aug 12, 2022

Salman Rushdie: Stephen King, Nigella Lawson and more react as author stabbed onstage in New York

‘The Satanic Verses’ author was stabbed in the neck while at a literary event

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2022

By chance, AP reporter on scene to witness Rushdie attack

By chance, Associated Press reporter Joshua Goodman was at the venue in western New York when author Salman Rushdie was attacked on Friday

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2022

Salman Rushdie Stabbed at Upstate N.Y. Lecture, by Man "with Sympathies Toward Iranian Government"

The suspect has apparently just been identified as Hadi Matar; the N.Y. Sun (Joe Marino & Evan Simko-Bednarski) reports, A New Jersey man with sympathies toward the Iranian government was arrested and accused of stabbing famed novelist Salman Rushdie on Friday, according to law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation….…

Reason · Aug 12, 2022

Salman Rushdie stabbing suspect ID'd as author still in surgery after brutal attack

The Satanic Verses novelist Sir Salman Rushdie's alleged attacker has reportedly been identified as 24-year-old Hadi Matar, from Fairview, New Jersey, by three law enforcement sources

Daily Mirror · Aug 12, 2022

Hadi Matar arrested for stabbing Salman Rushdie in neck in horror New York attack

Author spent years in hiding after a ‘fatwa’ was issued by the Iranian supreme leader in 1988

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2022