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 appeared in court on Tuesday to testify in the trial of the man who is accused of trying to murder him on stage at a talk in western New York in 2022. “It occurred to me that I was dying.