What do you know about the trial of Salman Rushdie

The trial of the man who claimed that the British -Indian author, Sir Salman Rushdie, has been stabbed several times in 2022, and left him blind in one eye, began on Monday in New York State.

Hadi Mattar, a 27 -year -old man from New Jersey, faces accusations of attempted murder and assault. He admitted that he was not guilty.

The attack, which was taken on the video, was held at the Historic Institute of Cotokua in northwestern New York, where Mr. Rushdie was scheduled to give a lecture.

The trial, in the nearby Mayville, will be determined by a jury, you will hear from many witnesses including Sir Salman himself.

Sir Salman, 77, was scheduled to give a lecture at the Chauteauqua Institute in August 2022, when he was discussing how the United States was a safe haven for exiled writers.

In that lecture, the man, who was claiming general prosecutors to be Mr. Mattar, on the stage and attacked Mr. Rushdie and an interview.

The authorities said that Sir Salman was stabbed at least once in the neck and in the abdomen. He was damaged in the liver as well.

The interview with the author, Henry Reese, was slightly injured in the head and was transferred to a local hospital. Meanwhile, Sir Salman was transferred to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he underwent surgery and placed on the artificial respirator.

The accident witnessed many of those present in the lecture. A video posted on the Internet shows the moment people rushed on the stage immediately after the attack, and the police said that the doctor gave Mr. Rushdie the first aid.

The police arrested Mr. Mattar, who was twenty -four years old at the time of the accident, shortly after that.

For many years, the author was a target of threats to his life after he published his novel “Satanic Ayat” in 1988.

The surrealist narration, post -modernity was inspired by the life of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. It has angered some Muslims, who considered its content in blasphemy, and was banned in some countries.

The threats were forced to hide for nine years, and he often traveled with security details in fear of his life.

But in recent years, the 77 -year -old said he believed the threats against him had shrunk. Two weeks before the attack, he told a German magazine that he felt that his life was “relatively normal”.

Mr. Mattar, suspect in the case, from Vervio, New Jersey. He was born in the United States to parents who immigrated from Lebanon.

At the time of his arrest, the police said they had no motive for the alleged attack.

The suspect later conducted an interview from prison to the New York Post, where Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran, who issued Fatwa – or decree – praised the execution of Sir Salman after the release of the demonic verses.

He did not say whether his alleged actions were affected by the way.

Mr. Mattar told the publication that he had only read a few pages of the novel. He added that he was an inspiration to go to Chauteauqua after seeing a tweet announcing that Sir Salman will visit.

“I don’t think he is a very good person,” said Mr. Mattar. “He is a person who attacked Islam.”

Separate on the charges of the Chutawuku Province Court, and the Federal Court accused Mr. Mattar of providing material support to the Armed Group in Lebanon, Hezbollah, according to an indictment funded last July.

Hezbollah has been appointed as a terrorist organization by Western countries, Israel, Gulf Gulf states and the Arab League.

Mr. Mattar acknowledged that he was not guilty of the Cotukua County case. At one time, his legal team tried to transfer the trial to another boycott, on the pretext that he risked an unfair trial due to the region’s lack of an Arab -Arab society and advertising on the prominent issue.

He is still in detention in the Cotukua Province prison. If he is convicted of trying to kill and attack, he faces a maximum of 32 years behind bars.

In the Islamic world, many Muslims’ reaction was angry with the publication of the book and threats were made to kill against Sir Salman.

He was forced to hide, and the British government put him under police protection. Iran soon cut ties with the United Kingdom to protest.

A year after the issuance of the demonic verses, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the author’s implementation. He provided a reward of $ 3 million (2.4 million pounds) in the case of Fatwa, a legal decree issued by an Islamic religious leader.

Dozens of people died in protests on the novel, while others – including the Japanese translator of the book – were killed after the Fatwa.

The reward at the head of Sir Salman is still active, and although the Iranian government has distanced itself from the Khomeini decree, an official Iranian religious institution added an additional amount worth $ 500,000 to this reward in 2012.

After the attack, Iran denied “” categorically “, that is, with the alleged perpetrator of the perpetrator. Some Iranian media praised the attack, and described Sir Salman as an apostate – a person who has gone off or denied his faith – in his coverage.

Sir Salman spent six weeks in the hospital after the attack. They survived, but the injuries resulted in damage to the liver, and lost his vision in one eye and a paralyzed hand due to the nerve damage to his arm.

Since then, he made notes on the attack called the knife.

The author is scheduled to testify. He previously told BBC Newshour that he was not sure whether he wanted to face his alleged striker.

“There is one part of me actually wants to go and stand on the field and look at it, and there is another part of me that cannot bother me,” he said.

In his memoirs, the author thought of what he would say to the alleged striker.

“I find that I have very little to tell you,” he wrote. “I touched our lives for a moment and then separated. It has improved for me since that day, while I deteriorated for you. I made a bad gamble and lost.”