Salman Rushdie taken off ventilator, can talk; accused pleads ‘not guilty’
Salman Rushdie taken off ventilator, can talk; accused pleads ‘not guilty’
His 1988 book 'The Satanic Verses' led to a fatwa, a religious decree, by the then Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The threat forced him into hiding for several years.