The trial for Hadi M, the man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie during a public event in 2022, commenced at a New York court. Hadi M faces charges of second-degree attempted murder and assault, having pleaded not guilty. The event, which left Rushdie with permanent injuries, occurred at a literary conference where he was to discuss writer safety. The trial also marks Rushdie's first confrontation with his assailant since the attack. This incident is set against the backdrop of Rushdie's long-standing struggle against a fatwa imposed by Iran, following the publication of The Satanic Verses.
Rushdie's book, The Satanic Verses, was labeled blasphemous by the Iranian leadership. The death threat forced the writer to go into hiding.
The attack took place before a crowd of thousands of people gathered at a literary conference at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York.
The trial is set to bring Rushdie, 77, face-to-face with his assailant for the first time in more than 2 years.
Rushdie had spent many years in hiding following a fatwa, a call to death, imposed on him by Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989.
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