Has Salman Rushdie died?
It has been 41 days since the attack on Salman Rushdie, the renegade author of the Evil Verses book, but silence and news boycott is still the main policy of the western media about his physical condition. During this time, no western media has published a picture of Rushdi, nor the slightest information about his condition in the “Hamut” hospital in the state of Pennsylvania.
The latest news about this issue is the one that was reported in the media on August 23, two days after the attack on him. According to those reports, Rushdi was stabbed 10 to 15 times in several areas of the body, including in the neck and abdomen.
Also, in the latest information, it was announced that Salman Rushdi is connected to an artificial breathing machine and has lost his ability to speak.
Reports also indicated that he might lose one of his eyes and some nerves in one of his arms were severed.
But this trickle-down process of informing about Rushdi’s growth has been stopped from this point on, and in a strange move, the media has not published any news about his physical condition. Some activists who contacted the hospital where Rushdi was hospitalized also said that the hospital staff said that they are not allowed to inform about this.
