British writer Salman Rushdie, whose founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a bloodshed fatwa in 1989 over his novel The Satanic Verses, was attacked today, Friday, in a hall where he was preparing to give a lecture in western New York State. according to US media reports.
In the police of the Chutok district, where the writer was supposed to give a lecture, in a conversation with AFP, they confirmed the fact of a knife wound to a person, without specifying the identity of the victim.
