(NY Post) The New Jersey man who allegedly stabbed Salman Rushdie at a literary event in western New York has been indicted by a grand jury — and he was denied bail on Thursday in part because of his jailhouse interview with the Post.
Hadi Matar, 24, pleaded not guilty to the charges of attempted murder and assault during his arraignment in Chautauqua County Court on Thursday.
Prosecutors requested that Matar be remanded without bail, citing comments he made to the Post from jail on Wednesday praising the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death in 1989 over his novel “The Satanic Verses.”
