Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of wounding Mr Rushdie, 75, on Friday just before the"The Satanic Verses" author was to deliver a lecture on stage at an educational retreat near Lake Erie. Rushdie was hospitalised with serious injuries in what writers and politicians around the world decried as an attack on the freedom of expression.
Judge David Foley ordered Matar to have no contact with Mr Rushdie and agreed to a request by his defence lawyer to issue a temporary gag order barring the parties from discussing the case in the media. He said he would consider the defence’s request to release Matar on bail.
But the multimillion-dollar bounty has since grown and the fatwa was never lifted: Mr Khomeini's successor, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was suspended from Twitter in 2019 for saying the fatwa against Mr Rushdie was"irrevocable."
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