Scotland police investigating loss of life risk towards JK Rowling immediately after Rushdie stabbing

Victor I. Nava

August 15, 04:28 AM August 15, 04:28 AM

Law enforcement in Scotland said on Sunday that they are investigating a menace manufactured towards author J.K. Rowling immediately after she condemned the stabbing of Salman Rushdie on Twitter.

The writer of the Harry Potter book sequence tweeted on Friday that she was "Experience quite sick right now," in reaction to the news of the stabbing assault towards Rushdie, a fellow creator. "Enable him be ok," she continued. Rowling later shared a screenshot of a threatening tweet she been given in response that study, "Do not worry you are subsequent."

"We have been given a report of an on the internet menace being created and officers are carrying out enquiries," a spokeswoman for Scotland's law enforcement said on Sunday, according to Reuters.

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Rowling attained out to the social media firm inquiring for help right after the menacing tweet.

"Twitter Help any alter of some help?" Rowling tweeted, tagging the platform's aid workforce along with screenshots of the conversation.

Rowling extra on Friday that "police are concerned (ended up by now involved on other threats)."

Rushdie, 75, was stabbed on Friday by a male who rushed the phase as he was getting ready to supply a lecture on artistic independence in western New York. Rushdie has lived beneath threat considering the fact that his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses prompted Iran's Ayatollah Rohullah Khomenei to challenge a fatwa in opposition to him, urging Muslims to kill him.

Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey is accused of attacking Rushdie and has pleaded not responsible to rates of tried murder and assault.

Rushdie remains in crucial issue, struggling stab wounds in the neck and chest, but he has been taken off a ventilator and is equipped to talk a couple words and phrases, according to his agent.