An American trial to a man charged with staff writer Sir Salman Rushdie should start on Tuesday two and a half years ago after postponing twice.
Hadi Matar was charged with attempted murder and attack for attacks in August 2022, leaving Mr. Rushdie blind in one eye.
Mr. Matar, 27, said he was not guilty of allegations.
The jury should be elected Tuesday in the Court of Chautauqua in New York. The trial will reportedly see that Mr. Rushdie gives evidence and face the accused in court.
He was originally to start in January 2024, but the defense team of Mr. Matar urged that the trial of delay on the basis of what the then upcoming book of Mr. Rushdie – a memoir about the attack – could be used as evidence, and the team of the defendant wanted to review his content first.
In October, the trial was put on hold after Mr. Matar’s legal team filed a request to move the trial to another county.
According to the New York Post, Mr. Matar’s lawyers claimed that the defendant risked an unjust trial in Chautauqua County Court in Mayfield, given the publicity about the high profile case and the lack of Arabian-American communities in Small County.
The request was unsuccessful and the trial will be held at Chautauqua’s district as planned.
In August 2022, the British-American author was born in India on a fan and spent six weeks at the hospital after being stabbed up to 10 times on stage at an event in New York.
Mr. Matar, who was 24 at the time, was charged with sprinter on stage and executing the attack.
Injuries have resulted in the damage to Mr. Rushdie’s liver, lost vision in one eye and a paralyzed hand caused by nerve damage on the arm.
The author of the Satanic verses, which should appear in court during the trial, said before BBC Newshour that he was not sure if he wanted to face an alleged attacker in court.
“I’m two in my mind,” he said. “There is one part of me who actually wants to go and stand on the field and look at him and there is another part of me that just can’t bother.”
Henry Reese, an event moderator that Mr Rushdie attended the Chautauqua institution in Western New York, was also injured in the attack.
Separately from Chautauqua District Court, Mr. Matar has accused the Federal Court of Providing Material Support with a militant group based in Lebanon Hezbollah, According to the indictment released last July.
Hezbollah was proclaimed a terrorist organization of Western states, Israel, bay of Arab countries and the Arab league.
Mr. Rushdie, who is now 77, is a well -known writer who has previously spent several years hiding after the 1988 Satanic verses.
The surrealistic, postmodern novel caused anger among some Muslims, who considered their content blasphemous – insulting religion or God – and was forbidden in some countries.
One year after the exit of the book, the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Mr. Rushdie’s execution. He offered an award of $ 3 million (£ 2.5 million) to Fatwa – a legal decree issued by an Islamic religious leader.
