Terrorism trial opens in stabbing of author Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie was stabbed and seriously injured in the 2022 attack, resulting in permanent physical harm including loss of vision in one eye and use of one hand.

In a western New York courtroom, a terrorism trial has opened for the man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie in 2022 — an act of violence rooted in grievances stretching back more than three decades to the publication of 'The Satanic Verses.' The case is rare in American legal history, placing before a jury not only the question of individual guilt but the broader and unresolved tension between free expression and religiously motivated retribution. Rushdie survived, but at permanent cost — his sight in one eye, the use of his writing hand — and the trial now asks what justice looks like when id

Terrorism trial opens in stabbing of author Salman Rushdie

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