On Monday, a jury will tell the initial statements of lawyers in the Hadi pea testing, accused of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a New York lecture.
Rushdie is then being one of the first witnesses to testify in the Chautaukwa County Court in Meville, New York, which is a rural art’s shelter in a few minutes of the Chautauqua Institute, where the author was stabbed in August 2022. Was.
The 26 -year -old peas can be seen in the video running on the stage of the institution as Rushdi was being introduced to the audience to talk about protecting the writers from harm. 77 -year -old Rushdie was stabbed with a knife several times in the head, neck, torso and left hand, blinded his right eye and damaged his liver and intestines.
Peas have not convicted the second degree attempt and the attempt of the second degree brought by the Chautaukwa County District Attorney. Rushdie has faced the dangers of death since the 1988 publication of his novel “The Satanic Verses”.
Rushdie has published a memoir about the attack and their long recurrence in which he imagines a conversation with his attacker. He has said that he believes that he is going to die on the stage of the Chautaukwa Sansthan.
Crowded in a Muslim Kashmiri family -Rushdie hid in 1989 under the patronage of the British police after Ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini, who was the supreme leader of Iran, pronounced “satanic verses”. Khomeini’s fatwa, or religious addict, asked the Muslims to kill the novelist and pioneer anyone involved in the publication of the book, a multimilian-dollar bounty and Japanese translator of 1991, Japanese Igarashi, Rushdi of 1991.
The Iranian government said in 1998 that it would no longer return the fatwa, and Rushdie ended its years as a recluse, where it became a stability of literary ceremonies in New York City where he lives.
After the attack, Peas told The New York Post that he had traveled from his home in New Jersey after the Rushdi event was advertised as he disliked the novelist and said that Rushdie had attacked Islam. Matar, a double citizen from his original America and Lebanon, said that he was surprised in the interview that Rushdie survived, the post said.
Pea testing has been delayed twice, recently his defense counsel unsuccessfully tried to take it to a different place, saying that Matar could not find a fair test in Chautaukwa. Near the Canadian border, about 1,500 people are being tested in the lakes of Meville.
If convicted of attempt to murder, peas have to face a maximum sentence of 25 years.
Peas also faced federal allegations brought by prosecutors in the US Attorney office in Western New York, accused of trying to provide material assistance to Hizbollah, an act of Rushdi as an act of terrorism and the armed group in Lebanon, Which has been nominated by the US as one. Terrorist organization. The pea is due to facing those allegations in a separate test in Buffalo.
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