WARNING: Video contains violent content not suitable for all viewers. Discretion is advised. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and reportedly stabbed in the neck on Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture on artistic freedom in Chautauqua, N.Y. “People were screaming and crying out and gasping… I didn’t believe what I was seeing,” eyewitness Bradley Fisher said.
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‘People were screaming’: Salman Rushdie attacked before lecture on New York stage
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