India, Feb. 12 -- Salman Rushdie appeared in a court on Tuesday, where he confronted the man who is suspected of almost murdering him. Offering the horrific assault in detail, he removed his glasses to show his blind right eye.

The 77-year-old British-Indian author recalled the "ferocious" expression in Hadi Matar's eyes as the 27-year-old allegedly started stabbing Rushdie after he stormed a stage in upstate New York in August 2022. Rushdie further stated that he thinks he would have died if other good Samaritans hadn't pulled Matar down.

Rushdie told judges, "I only saw him at the last minute," while his tearful wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, used a tissue to wipe her eyes in the Chautauqua County Courthouse gallery.

The author of "Th...