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Friday, May 16, 2025

Salman Rushdie attacker at Chatauqua Institution speech sentenced to 25 years in the 2022 knifing

Chatauqua annual lecture - education event, NY

Mayville (south of Buffalo, New York State)

The deranged follower of the Ayatollah Khomeinei

who attacked British novelist and anti-censorship activist

Salman Rushdie will be sentenced for the attack with 

knife on Rushdie and his host / official who was also

tackled and seriously injured.

THE JUDGE David W. Foley stated that the

assailant would likely kill and attack another person

if set free.

May 16, 2025

CNN is reporting this development -- ahead of the

judge's sentence and the court room reaction.

Khomeinei's fatwa was issued in 1989 for the

magical realism fiction work titled

The Satanic Verses (1988)


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