Salman Rushdie shows first signs of recovery after being stabbed

British writer Salman Rushdie is “beginning to get better,” his agent said Sunday, two days after he was stabbed at a New York State literary event.

“He’s off life support, so his recovery has begun,” literary agent Andrew Wylie said in a statement sent to several media outlets.

“It takes time. The injuries are serious, but his condition is improving,” he added.

Earlier, the agent said that Salman Rushdie could lose an eye, and also that he suffered liver injuries.

The family is “extremely happy” that he got off the ventilator and said “a few words,” Rushdie’s son said in London.

“We are very happy that yesterday (Saturday) he was taken off the ventilator and he was able to say a few words,” wrote Zafar Rushdi on Twitter. “Despite the severity of his injuries, life or death, his grumpy and brash sense of humor remains intact,” he added.

Salman Rushdie attacked in New York

Writer Salman Rushdiewho spent years under police protection after being ordered to be killed by Muslim religious leaders on the grounds that he blasphemed Islam in his novel The Satanic Verses, was preparing to speak at a literary event on Friday when a man walked out of the audience, took the podium and repeatedly stabbed him in the neck and abdomen.

The suspect, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, was knocked to the ground by guards and bystanders before Rushdie was airlifted to the hospital.

Matar appeared in court on Saturday and pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault with a weapon. He was detained without bail.

Salman Rushdie: some facts about his attacker

US authorities have provided little information about Hadi Matar or the reasons for his attack.

His family appears to be from the southern Lebanese city of Yarun, although he was born in the United States, according to a Lebanese official.

Matar’s parents divorced, his father, a pastor, a journalist from AFP who has visited this place.

Journalists who tried to approach the father were removed.

Salman RushdieThe 75-year-old man managed to escape the death sentence handed down in 1989 by Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who ordered all Muslims to kill the writer.

The religious order (fatwa) was issued after Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, which many Muslims considered blasphemous.

Normality by Salman Rushdie

In a recent interview with a German magazine stern, Salman Rushdie told how, after many years of living under the threat of death, his life was “returning to normal.”

“For a while, eight or nine years, it was pretty serious,” he said. stern In New York. “But since I’ve been living in the United States since 2000, I really didn’t have any problems,” he added.

After settling in New York, he became a US citizen in 2016. Despite constant threats to his life, he was often seen in public and often without conspicuous tutelage.

Security wasn’t particularly good on Friday when he showed up at the Chautauqua Institute, an organization that hosts cultural events in the city near Buffalo City.

The attack caused outrage among intellectuals, politicians and ordinary people around the world.

U.S. President Joe Biden said the writer was the victim of a “brutal attack” and praised Rushdie “for refusing to intimidate or silence.” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was “horrified”.

However, in such Islamist countries as Iran or Pakistan, satisfaction was expressed.

(According to AFP).

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