Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck during an event in New York
The assailant Hadi Matar has been charged with attempted murder
Author Salman Rushdie, whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s
a 24-year-old from New Jersey, stabbed the author in the neck at a literary event in western New York on Friday, August 12
Rushdie was put on a ventilator after hours of surgery and the nerves in his arms were severed
Rushdie's liver was stabbed and damaged, his book agent, Andrew Wylie, told the media
The attack on Rushdie comes more than 30 years after Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
edict, calling for Rushdie’s death over his book 'The Satanic Verses'
The book has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous
As the world condemned the attack on Rushdie, several hardline Iranian newspapers poured praise on Hadi Matar