Sir Salman Rushdie turned to his left, removed his glasses, one lens tinted, one clear and revealed to the jury the deep scar where his right eye used to be...

In his own words, author Salman Rushdie describes the moments when a stranger rushed at him on stage in western New York and began attacking him.

Salman Rushdie appeared in court on Tuesday to testify in the trial of the man who is accused of trying to murder him on stage at a talk in western New York in 2022. “It occurred to me that I was dying.