内容摘要：Officials later confirmed his last meal as four pieces of fried chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes with gravy, biscuits, cheesecake and sweet tea. The meal was served on Wednesday evening.

Officials later confirmed his last meal as four pieces of fried chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes with gravy, biscuits, cheesecake and sweet tea. The meal was served on Wednesday evening.

An attack in 2022 happened after Sir Salman spent years in hiding because of threats to his life after his novel The Satanic Verses was published in 1988.He will join figures in Hay-On- Wye, Powys, including

Sir Salman is the author of 22 works of fiction and non-fiction and won the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.He was also shortlisted for The Satanic Verses and Quichotte.The 77-year-old previously spent several years in hiding after the 1988 publication of The Satanic Verses - a fictional story inspired by the life of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad - triggered threats against his life.

It was banned in India, Pakistan and South Africa and prompted then Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a decree calling for Sir Salman's death in 1989.More than 35 years after the release of Sir Salman's novel, he was attacked multiple times on a New York lecture stage

He was left with severe injuries including damage to his liver, vision loss in one eye and a paralysed hand caused by nerve damage to his arm.

The attacker, Hadi Matar, 27,The remaining eight were undetermined or remain under investigation, it said.

The Glasgow University team behind the report said the overall level of deaths in custody last year was the highest since modern records began, in 1995, and almost certainly the highest ever."That rise is absolutely stunning. It's unprecedented," said Professor Sarah Armstrong who led the research.

The report also said prison deaths from suicide had been rising since 2016 and may have reached a record high last year.Prof Armstrong said she was encouraged by the SPS reaction to a report into the deaths of