LONDON: Scotland's police said on Sunday they are investigating a report of an"online threat" made to the author JK Rowling after she tweeted her condemnation of the stabbing of Salman Rushdie.
The Harry Potter creator said she felt"very sick" after hearing the news and hoped the novelist would"be OK".After sharing screenshots of the threatening tweet, Rowling said:"To all sending supportive messages: Thank you police are involved ". A spokeswoman for Scotland's police said:"We have received a report of an online threat being made and officers are carrying out enquiries."
Rushdie, 75, was set to deliver a lecture on artistic freedom on Friday in western New York when a man rushed the stage and stabbed the Indian-born writer, who has lived with a bounty on his head since his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses prompted Iran to urge Muslims to kill him.and unable to speak as of Friday evening. The novelist was likely to lose an eye and had nerve damage in his arm and wounds to his liver.
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