The lawyers on Monday started making inauguration statements in the test of a person trying to try a writer Salman Rushdie in front of the audience in Western New York.
77-year-old Rushdie is expected to testify during Hadi Matar’s test, which will bring the author face to face with a knife-ridden attacker for the first time in more than two years.
Booker Award winning writer Rushdie was about to speak about protecting writers from harm in August 2022, when Matar Chautaukwa fled to the stage at the institution amphitheater. Peas stabbed Rushdi for more than a dozen in the neck, abdomen, chest, hand and right eye, partially blind and one hand permanent loss.
Indian-born British-American writer expanded a memoir in a memoir in “Known: Meditation of Prayer Murder” and expanded their long, painful recovery. Rushdie was worried about his safety as his 1989 novel “The Satanic Verses” was condemned by many Muslims as a condemnation and Iran’s Ayatollah Rohola Khomeini inspired him to call a fatwa for his death. Was.
Rushdie spent years in hiding, but traveled independently in the last quarter, Eafer Iran announced that it would not implement the decree.
The test is being done as the 36th anniversary of the fatwa – 14 February 1989 – Views.
Fairview, 27 -year -old peas of New Jersey, have been accused of murder and attack. Hey did not guilty.
A jury was selected last week. During the three -day process, peas in court are taking notes and consulting with their lawyers. “Free Palestine” was taken to court on Monday to take photographs and videos, “he said peacefully.
Peas’s defense faced a challenging start, as it was announced that his lawyer, Nathaniel Baron, who was hospitalized with an unknown disease and would not attend the beginning of the test.
Instead of directing a colleague of Baron to make an initial statement of defense in his place, Judge David Fole denied a defense request to postpone the inauguration statement.
Once testimony is going on, the test is expected to last from a week to 10 days. The gamblers will be shown videos and photos from the day of the attack, which ended when the audience sent Matar and Hero until the police arrived.
Moderator of the event, Henry Reese, Sharan’s co-founder in Pittsburgh, was injured. Matar told the investigators that he traveled to Chautaukwa, about 120 km south of Buffalo. It is believed that we slept in the ground of art and academic retreat night before the attack.
Peas’s lawyer has not indicated what his protection will be. In a separate prosecution, the federal officials allege that Matar was called to Rushdi’s death by the support of the fatwa of a terrorist organization, or the support of the adict.
Tests on federal allegations later – Terrorism has crossed national borders, providing physical assistance to terrorists and trying to provide material assistance to a terrorist organization – will be determined in the US District Court in Buffalo.
Rushdie has been one of the most famous writers in the world, in 1981 in the publication of the winner of the Booker Prize, “Midnights Children,”. His other works include the novels “Shame” and “Victory City”, which he had completed shortly before stabbing 2022, and the 2012 memoir “Joseph Anton”, in which he wrote about his time.
In the federal prosecution, officials allege that Mater believes that the Edict was supported by Hizbullah, a Lebanon -based terrorist group and was supported in a 2006 speech by the then leader of the group, Hasan Nasrallah.
