Salman Rushdie’s suspect of an attack on Salman Rushdie continues to try

The man accused of a stabbing writer Sir Salman Rushdie faces a lawsuit in the United States, with the jury’s selection beginning on Tuesday.

Hadi Matar was accused of attempting to murder and attack in the incident in August 2022, which left Rushyi’s close eye in one eye.

The 27 -year -old Matar admitted that he was not guilty of the charges.

The trial of Chautauqua District Court in the State of New York, which has been delayed twice, will see the Rushdie to give evidence and face the accused in court.

Initially, it was planned to begin in January 2024, but the team of G -n Matar appealed to be delayed on the grounds that the then book of G -n Rushdie – a memoir for the attack – could be used as evidence and the defendant’s team He wants to review his contents first.

Then in October the trial was detained after the legal team of G -N Matar asked to move the trial to another county.

As the New York Post reports, Mr Matar’s lawyers say the defendant is at risk of unfair process in the Chautauqua District Court in Mayvil, given the publicity surrounding the high-profile case and the lack of an Arab-American community in the small district.

The request was unsuccessful and the process began in the Chautauqua District Court – which is in a village with a population of about 1500 people – as was originally planned.

In August 2022, India-born British-American author was released on a fan and spent six weeks in hospital after being stabbed up to 10 times on the stage of an event in New York.

Matar, who was 24 years old at the time, was accused of sprint on stage and the attack.

The injuries led to damage to the liver of the Rushdie, lost vision in one eye and a paralyzed arm caused by damage to the nerves of his hand.

The author of the satanic poems earlier told BBC Newshour that he is not sure if he wants to face his alleged attacker in court.

“I’m in two minds for that,” he said. “There is one part of me that actually wants to go and stand on the court and look at it and there is another one of me that just can’t worry.”

Henry Reese, the moderator of the event, was present at the Chautauqua institution in Western New York, was also injured in the attack.

Apart from the allegations in the court of Chautauka County, Mr. Matar was accused by a federal court for providing substantial support to the military group based in Lebanon, Hezbollah, According to an indictment, an unseen last July.

Hezbollah is appointed as a terrorist organization from the Western states, Israel, the Arab Gulf countries and the Arab League.

Rushdie, who is already 77 years old, is a well -known writer who previously spent several years in hiding after the 1988 publication of Satanic poems – a fictional story inspired by the life of Muslim Prophet Mohammed – caused threats against life it.

The surrealist, the postmodern novel, provoked outrage among some Muslims who consider its content to be blasphemous – offensive to religion or God – and was banned in some countries.

A year after the book was released, Iran’s supreme leader Homeini called for the execution of G -N Rushdie. He offered an award of $ 3 million (£ 2.5 million) at Fatwa, a legal decree issued by an Islamic religious leader.