2024-07-20 12:10:18
Author Salman Rushdie cannot be forced to hand over his personal notes about the stabbing to the man accused of stabbing him, a US judge has ruled, rejecting his claim that he has the right to do so as he prepares for trial, the Associated Press reported. pres.
Hadi Matar’s lawyers served a subpoena on Rushdie and his publisher, Penguin Random House, for all source material related to the memoir “Knife: Meditations after an Assassination Attempt,” which chronicles the 2022 attack. Public defender Nathaniel Barron explained that the wanted his material contains information that is not available anywhere else.
“You can get it from the book,” Judge David Foley told Barron before ruling that the request was too broad and burdensome. The judge also recalled that Rushdie and the publisher were protected by New York law that protects journalists from being forced to disclose confidential sources or material.
Matar pleaded not guilty to assault and attempted murder, BTA writes. He was charged shortly after he rushed the stage and stabbed Rushdie before he spoke to about 1,500 people at the Chautauqua Institute in New York state. Rushdie went blind in one eye after the accident.