Salman Rushdie lost his right eye and suffered permanent damage to the nerves of his hand, resulting from this stabbing
The man who stabbed the writer Salman Rushdie during a literary conference in the US state of New York in August 2022, was sentenced to a 25-year prison sentence on Friday.
The Associated Press Agency (AP) recalls that a jury had considered, in February, Hadi to kill, 27, guilty of attempted murder and aggression.
Salman Rushdie was not in court this Friday to hear the sentence of his aggressor, but filed a statement of ‘impact on the victim’.
The 77 -year -old writer was the main witness of the case, having during the trial described as he believed he was dying, when a masked man kept him a knife in his head and body more than a dozen times.
Salman Rushdie lost his right eye and suffered permanent damage to his hand nerves resulting from this stabbing.
Last year he edited the “knife – meditations following an attempted murder” memories in which he recalls the events of that attack and the long recovery process.
Before knowing the sentence, Hadi kills made a statement alleging freedom of expression, in which he nicknamed Salman Rushdie of hypocritical.
“Salman Rushdie wants to disrespect other people. He wants to be a bully, he wants to do” bullying “about others. I don’t agree with that,” he said, quoted by AP.
Hadi killing was sentenced to the maximum penalty of 25 years for the attempted murder of the writer and seven years for injuring the moderator of Rushdie’s lecture, Ralph Henry Reese, who was on stage with him.
According to Public Prosecutor Jason Schmidt of Chautauqua County, where the attack happened, the two penalties will be met simultaneously, as both victims were injured at the same time.
Hadi Killing will now be tried in a Federal Court on suspicion of crimes of terrorism, as he allegedly provided material aid to the Lebanese Shiite Militia Hezbollah.
Born in Bombaim in 1947, Salman Rushdie is the author of novels, tales for youth and rehearsals, and received in 1981 the Booker award for the book “The Children of Midnight.”
Rushdie burned down part of the Muslim world with the publication of the work “Satanic Verses” in 1988, which led the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatola Ruhollah Khomeini, to issue a ‘Fatwa’ against the writer.
After that, he spent years hidden and with police protection, but gradually returned to public life after, in 1998, the Iranian government had distanced itself from the sentence, stating that it would not support any attempt to kill it, although Fatwa was never officially revoked.
Salman Rushdie’s most recent novel, “City of Victory”, completed a month before the attack, was edited in 2023 and is also published in Portugal.
Last year, when he published “knife – meditations following an attempted murder,” said the work: “I realized that I had to write this book […] Before you can go to anything else. Writing would be my way of possessing what had happened, assuming your control, making it mine, refusing to be a mere victim. Would respond to violence with art. “
