The writer Salman Rushdie has regained consciousness and began to speak in an "articulate manner", investigators say, while he is still hospitalized following the serious injuries sustained in the attack suffered last Friday, on the stage of the Chautauqua Institution, in the state. from New York
A law enforcement official who directly follows the investigation into the attack against Rushdie told CNN.
The author of the "Satanic Verses" stabbed on August 12, is conscious and able to answer investigators' questions, according to the law enforcement official.
Rushdie, the recipient of a 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against 'Verses' deemed blasphemous to Islam, had been stabbed several times before his speech at a conference.
A young American of Lebanese origin, Hadi Matar, was arrested on charges of attempted murder.