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Rushdie’s alleged attacker, Hadi Matar, was due in court to face attempted murder and assault charges.

Iran's rulers bear responsibility for the attack against the British writer Salman Rushdie as the Islamic republic never repudiated a 1989 order issued by its founder calling for the novelist to be killed, activists and opponents charged Saturday. While the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini over Rushdie's novel "The…

Iranians are reacting with praise and worry over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie — the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death

The Indian-born writer has been stabbed in New York, and it’s not his first brush with violence

Hadi Matar, 24, in custody after author of Satanic Verses was stabbed at literary event in western New York

The controversial author spent years in hiding after 1989 decree by the Iranian leader led to threats against his life.

The writer had no idea his novel would unleash such anger and become a litmus test of freedom of expression

Author Salman Rushdie was on Friday recovering from surgery in hospital after he was stabbed in the neck as he was about to give a lecture in New York state.

The critically acclaimed writer rose to fame in 1981 and later received death threats for The Satanic Verses