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

Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail on Tuesday the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him with a knife, leaving him with life-threatening injuries.

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...