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We all have the right to have our own ideals; we all have the right to carry them,
Every day since then, for the last couple of years, this case has been an international publicity sponge,
He was hitting me repeatedly. Hitting and slashing,
I saw a large quantity of blood pouring onto my clothes.”
It was only later that he realised the severity of his situation We allege that, in attempting to murder Salman Rushdie in New York in 2022, Hadi Matar committed an act of terrorism in the name of Hezbollah, a designated terrorist organization aligned with the Iranian regime,
former US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement I’m not as energetic as I used to be. I’m not as physically strong as I used to be,
I saw the man in black running towards me, down the right-hand side of the seating area: Black clothes, black face mask – he was coming in hard and low, a squat missile,
Rushdie told "60 Minutes" host Anderson Cooper in April 2024. My first thought when I saw this murderous shape rushing towards me was: So, it’s you. Here you are,
It was a stab wound in my eye, intensely painful, after that I was screaming because of the pain,
I know if he had the opportunity, he would not be sitting where he's sitting today. And if he could change things, he would,
He's traumatized. He has nightmares about what he experienced,
Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt said after the sentencing hearing, referring to what Rushdie suffered Salman Rushdie wants to disrespect other people,
said Matar, clad in white-striped jail clothing and wearing handcuffs I became aware of a great quantity of blood I was lying in. My sense of time was quite cloudy, I was in pain from my eye and hand, and it occurred to me quite clearly I was dying.”
Speaking from the stand in February, Rushdie said I want you to look at the unprovoked nature of this attack,
District Attorney Jason Schmidt said He designed this attack so that he could inflict the most amount of damage, not just upon Mr Rushdie, but upon this community, upon the 1,400 people who were there to watch it,
