Hadi Matar, 24, who attacked author Salman Rushdie, was taken to the Chautauka County Jail (Kansas, United states). He is arrested for attempted murder in the 2nd degree and assault in the 2nd degree. On Saturday, August 13, he will be charged.

The motives for Matar’s actions have not however been officially named.

Before, a legislation enforcement formal informed NBC News that, in accordance to an evaluation of the steps of the detainee on social networks, Hadi Matar has sympathy for Shiite extremists and Iran’s Islamic Groundbreaking Guard Corps. At the very same time, he did not have any contacts with the IRGC.

Salman Rushdie, who was the victim of the assault, could shed an eye, in accordance to the writer’s literary agent Andrew Wylie. “The news is lousy. Salman is very likely to drop a person eye severed nerves in his arm stabbed liver harmed,” Wylie stated. Rushdie is on a ventilator, according to an agent cited by Reuters.

Remember that on August 12, Rushdie was making ready to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institute in western New York, and he was now getting introduced to the community when a gentleman jumped onto the stage and attacked the writer.

He stabbed the writer numerous moments with a knife. Rushdie fell. The attacker was arrested.

Rushdie was carried out of the setting up on a stretcher and taken to the clinic.

Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in India. In Iran, he is deemed a blasphemer. His novel The Satanic Verses has been banned from publication. In 1989, the then Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa calling for the author to be punished with demise. There was a $3 million reward for Rushdie’s murder.

The circumstance close to Rushdie led the United kingdom and Iran to break off diplomatic relations in March 1989, and considering that then Rushdie has been pressured to reside below law enforcement security. Nine years later, relations in between the countries ended up restored, but Iran explained that it would neither satisfy nor terminate the fatwa.