U.K. Police Examine On the internet Danger to J.K. Rowling
The authorities in the United Kingdom mentioned on Sunday that they were investigating an online threat against the author J.K. Rowling after she presented assist on social media to Salman Rushdie, the novelist who was attacked very last week at an event in western New York.
Hours immediately after the assault on Mr. Rushdie, who was stabbed roughly 10 situations as he well prepared to speak at the Chautauqua Establishment, Ms. Rowling tweeted her condolences. She initially wrote on Twitter, “Horrifying information,” then extra: “Feeling pretty ill suitable now. Let him be Okay.”
In response, a person with the handle @MeerAsifAziz1 replied: “Don’t worry you are following.”
The tweet was afterwards deleted while the account remained lively as of Sunday afternoon.
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said that the authorities experienced received a report of an on-line threat against Ms. Rowling and that an investigation was ongoing.
On Saturday, Ms. Rowling, 57, who wrote the award-winning “Harry Potter” guides, assailed Twitter for enabling the social media account that lodged the threat to stay lively.
“@TwitterSupport These are your pointers, suitable?” she wrote. “Violence: You may well not threaten violence against an personal or a team of persons. We also prohibit the glorification of violence…”
Twitter did not immediately answer to a ask for for comment.
On Sunday, Warner Bros. Discovery, the leisure firm behind the “Harry Potter” film variations, supplied a assertion condemning the assault on Ms. Rowling.
“We stand with her and all the authors, storytellers and creators who bravely convey their creativeness and viewpoints,” the company said in a assertion, which also offered condolences to Mr. Rushdie and his relatives.
“The company strongly condemns any variety of risk, violence or intimidation when views, beliefs and thoughts could vary,” the statement claimed.
Mr. Rushdie went into hiding in 1989, shortly after the publication of his novel “The Satanic Verses.” The e-book, which contained fictionalized depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, offended numerous Muslims, and resulted in a fatwa, or religious edict, from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme chief of Iran, who urged Muslims to kill the creator. In 1998, the country’s president mentioned Iran no for a longer time supported the edict.
As Mr. Rushdie ready to communicate at the Chautauqua Establishment, a person, later identified by the law enforcement as Hadi Matar, 24, of New Jersey, stormed the phase and stabbed him. Mr. Rushdie stays in a medical center in Erie, Pa., and his agent claimed on Sunday that he was recovering.
Mr. Matar has pleaded not guilty in the assault.
The authorities in the United Kingdom mentioned on Sunday that they were investigating an online threat against the author J.K. Rowling after she presented assist on social media to Salman Rushdie, the novelist who was attacked very last week at an event in western New York.
Hours immediately after the assault on Mr. Rushdie, who was stabbed roughly 10 situations as he well prepared to speak at the Chautauqua Establishment, Ms. Rowling tweeted her condolences. She initially wrote on Twitter, “Horrifying information,” then extra: “Feeling pretty ill suitable now. Let him be Okay.”
In response, a person with the handle @MeerAsifAziz1 replied: “Don’t worry you are following.”
The tweet was afterwards deleted while the account remained lively as of Sunday afternoon.
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said that the authorities experienced received a report of an on-line threat against Ms. Rowling and that an investigation was ongoing.
On Saturday, Ms. Rowling, 57, who wrote the award-winning “Harry Potter” guides, assailed Twitter for enabling the social media account that lodged the threat to stay lively.
“@TwitterSupport These are your pointers, suitable?” she wrote. “Violence: You may well not threaten violence against an personal or a team of persons. We also prohibit the glorification of violence…”
Twitter did not immediately answer to a ask for for comment.
On Sunday, Warner Bros. Discovery, the leisure firm behind the “Harry Potter” film variations, supplied a assertion condemning the assault on Ms. Rowling.
“We stand with her and all the authors, storytellers and creators who bravely convey their creativeness and viewpoints,” the company said in a assertion, which also offered condolences to Mr. Rushdie and his relatives.
“The company strongly condemns any variety of risk, violence or intimidation when views, beliefs and thoughts could vary,” the statement claimed.
Mr. Rushdie went into hiding in 1989, shortly after the publication of his novel “The Satanic Verses.” The e-book, which contained fictionalized depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, offended numerous Muslims, and resulted in a fatwa, or religious edict, from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme chief of Iran, who urged Muslims to kill the creator. In 1998, the country’s president mentioned Iran no for a longer time supported the edict.
As Mr. Rushdie ready to communicate at the Chautauqua Establishment, a person, later identified by the law enforcement as Hadi Matar, 24, of New Jersey, stormed the phase and stabbed him. Mr. Rushdie stays in a medical center in Erie, Pa., and his agent claimed on Sunday that he was recovering.
Mr. Matar has pleaded not guilty in the assault.