Salman Rushdie stabbing suspect pleads not guilty in court appearance
by Maya Yang in New York and agencies from on (#62MZS)
Hadi Matar, 24, ordered held without bail in western New York on second-degree attempted murder and assault charges
The man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie last week in western New York pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges on Thursday.
Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of wounding Rushdie, 75, on Friday just before the author of The Satanic Verses was to deliver a lecture on stage at an educational retreat near Lake Erie. Rushdie was hospitalized with serious injuries in what writers and politicians around the world decried as an attack on the freedom of expression.
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