Salman Rushdie off ventilator and condition improving: Agent

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Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed author who was hospitalised on Friday (Aug 12) with serious injuries after being repeatedly stabbed at a public appearance in New York state, is off a ventilator and his condit

at a public appearance in New York state, is off a ventilator and his condition is improving, his agent said on Sunday.

Following hours of surgery, Rushdie had been put on a ventilator and was unable to speak as of Friday evening, Wylie said in a prior update on the novelist's condition, adding that he was likely to lose an eye and had nerve damage in his arm and wounds to his liver.Author Salman Rushdie is transported to a helicopter after he was stabbed on stage before his scheduled speech at the Chautauqua Institution, New York on Aug 12, 2022, in this screengrab taken from a social media video.

The IRGC is a powerful faction that controls a business empire as well as elite armed and intelligence forces that Washington accuses of carrying out a global extremist campaign. Rushdie, who was born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in Bombay, now Mumbai, before moving to Britain, has long faced death threats for The Satanic Verses, viewed by some Muslims as containing blasphemous passages. The book was banned in many countries with large Muslim populations.

 

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