The police investigation into an ‘online threat’ made to JK Rowling over her support for Sir Salman Rushdie has been dropped.
Indian-born British author Sir Rushdie, whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution, 65 miles from Buffalo in New York state, when he was stabbed on August 12.
He has faced years of threats over his book The Satanic Verses, which has been banned in Iran since 1988 as many Muslims view it as blasphemous.on Sir Rushdie at the time. Hadi Matar, 24, was arrested after allegedly rushing onto the stage and stabbing Sir Rushdie about a dozen times in front of a crowd, including in the neck and eye.
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