Excerpts from Salman Rushdie's court testimony about a harrowing attack Author Salman Rushdie testified Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of attacking him with a knife just after he took his seat for a panel discussion at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York.
While lying on the stage, Rushdie recalled “a sense of great pain and shock and aware of the fact that there was an enormous quantity of blood that I was lying in.".
“It was a stab wound in my eye and intensely painful, and after that, I was screaming because of the pain and I couldn’t see out of the eye any more," Rushdie said.
“Before we were able to start having the conversation we were going to have, I was aware of this person rushing at me from my righthand side," Rushdie said.
“I was struggling to get away from him and I was struck a number of times more on my chest and torso and around my waist,” the author said.
