Salman Rushdie expected to testify at stabbing trial in January

Alleged attacker Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, following incident in Chautauqua, New York, that left Rushdie blind in one eye

Salman Rushdie is expected to testify against the man charged with stabbing him on stage in New York state last year, during a trial set to take place in January.

The Indian-born British-American author of novels including The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children is “on the people’s witness list right now heading into trial,” Chautauqua county district attorney Jason Schmidt said on Friday. This followed a court hearing in which the judge scheduled a trial for 8 January, reported AP.