For the first time in weeks, the agent of the British writer Salman Rushdie, the author of the book "Satanic Verses", reveals several details about the health of the writer, who was attacked in August in the United States, without clarifying whether he is still in the hospital or not

According to what his agent pointed out in a statement to the Spanish newspaper "El Pais", Salman Rushdie lost sight in one of his eyes, his hand was paralyzed, and he suffered other injuries

Andrei Wiley said in an interview with El Pais published over the weekend that Rushdie"lost sight in one of his eyes... He suffered three serious neck injuries. He suffers from paralysis in one of his hands because the nerves of his arm were severed. He suffered about 15 injuries to the chest and torso,"he said.

"His injuries were very deep , the attack was brutal," his agent explained, but he "will live."

On August 12, Rushdie was preparing to participate in a seminar in upstate New York when someone burst into the podium and stabbed him several times, especially in the neck and abdomen.

As a result, Rushdi was taken by helicopter to the hospital, where he was connected for a short time to an artificial respiration machine before his condition improved.

The main suspect in the attack on the author of the novel "Satanic Verses"was immediately arrested

The detainee was a 24-year-old American of Lebanese descent named Hadi Matar, who pleaded not guilty before a court in Mayville, New York, in a trial that held its first hearing in mid-August.

Rushdie's attack shocked the West, while it was praised by extremists in Muslim countries such as Iran and Pakistan.

In 1989, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa against wasting the blood of the author of the novel.