Mewell, New York – Lawyers are to supply Monday opening statements At the trial Among the writers of a lecture in western New York, one of the men trying to stabbed Salman Rushdie.
It is expected that 77 -year -old Rushdie will testify during Hadi Matar’s trial, which will bring the author face to face with a knife -fired attacker for the first time in more than two years.
Rushdie, a “midnight baby” and “Victorian City” writer, was about to talk about protecting the authors from damage in August 2022 when Matar Chotuka fled to the stage at the Amphatheter. The Mutar gave Rushdie a knife more than a dozen times in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye, causing partially blind and permanent damage.
Indian -born British -American author gives details of the attack and its long, traumatic recovery In a memory“Knife: After meditation and attempt to murder,” was released last year.
27 -year -old Matar of New Jersey’s Fairwave has been accused of trying to kill and attack. He has requested not to be guilty. A jury was selected last week. Matar was in court for three days, taking notes and consulting his lawyers.
Once the testimony is going on, the trial is expected to continue for a week to 10 days. From the day of the attack, the video and photos will be shown to the jors, which ended at the end when the spectators delivered to the muter and held it until the police arrived. The city asylum founder, Henry Raz, the event moderator, was also injured in Pittsburg.
Matar told investigators that he traveled to Chitoka by bus, about 75 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. He is believed to have fell asleep on the basis of art and educational retreat a night before the attack.
Matar’s lawyer has not indicated what will be defended.
I A separate individual crimeFederal authorities allege that the Matar was influenced by a fatwa, or the order of a terrorist organization, demanding the death of Rushdie. Later trial on federal charges – Terrorism beyond national borders, providing material support to terrorists and trying to provide material support to the terrorist organization – will be scheduled in the US district court in the buffalo.
Rushdie spent the years in hiding after Iranian leader Ayatollah Rohula Khomeini issued Fatova in 1989 Rushdie novel, above the “devilish verses”, which some Muslims consider to be derogatory.
In the federal crime, officials allege that Matar believes the order is supported by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and was endorsed in the speech of the group’s then leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2006. It was.
