Excerpts from Satanic Verses author’s testimony about harrowing knife attack - In his own words, author Salman Rushdie describes the moments when a stranger rushed at him on stage in western New York

The novelist Salman Rushdie showed a jury his blinded right eye on Tuesday as he testified against the man charged with trying to murder him at a talk at a rural New York venue in 2022.

Author Salman Rushdie has taken the stand in a New York courtroom to testify against the man charged with stabbing him in a frenzied knife attack.