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The savage aggression was possible thanks to the fact that the Chautauqua Institution, which was organizing the event, rejected the police suggestion to put metal detector arches. Salman Rushdie has regained his voice and is able to breathe without help. The British-American writer is, thus, "on the road to recovery", as confirmed by his agent, Andrew Wylie, to the newspaper 'New York Times'. What is showing extraordinary health are the sales of his book 'The Satanic Verses', for which he was sentenced to death by Iran in 1989 due to the alleged "blasphemous" nature of the work. The novel was last night in the 11th position of best-selling books in the Amazon online store, where it occupied the first position in the field of contemporary fiction. Rushdie's other thirteen fiction books were also climbing the bestseller lists, although without reaching the level of the work for which, perhaps, the writer was about to pay with his life. Hadi Matar C...

The writer no longer needs a ventilator to breathe and can speak. According to some media, he would have received seven or eight stab wounds. American Hadi Matar, 24, the son of Lebanese immigrants, has been formally charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of writer Salman Rushdie. The United States authorities maintain a strict silence about Matar, although his "trace" on social networks shows him as a Muslim extremist and sympathizer of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the elite military force of that country, much more ideologized. and aligned with Islamic fundamentalism than the Iranian Armed Forces. Hadi Matar pleaded "not guilty" to "attempted murder" in a New York state court. That is the information transmitted by the media of that country. The police authorities of the state of New York, in which the attack took place, have not established the possible motivation for the action and insist that the investigation is ongoing. The Islamic Repub...