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The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison. CBC | World News
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‘Great pain and shock’: Salman Rushdie testifies in the trial of his suspected attacker
Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail on Tuesday the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him with a knife, leaving him with life-threatening injuries. CBC | World News
Read More »‘Great pain and shock’: author Salman Rushdie testifies in the trial of his suspected attacker
Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail Tuesday the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him with a knife, leaving him with life-threatening injuries. CBC | World News
Read More »Bureaucratic mishap brings happy ending to ban on controversial Salman Rushdie book in India
An Indian court has overturned a 36-year-old order banning the import of copies of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses because nobody could find the original order. CBC | World News
Read More »Salman Rushdie details the 27 seconds of the knife attack that nearly ended his life
Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie was attacked on a New York stage in August 2022 and suffered life-changing injuries. He spoke to CBC’s The Current about his new book, in which he details the stabbing, imagines a conversation with the alleged attacker and shares how he beat the odds to survive. CBC | World News
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