Hadi Matar, 24, has been charged with attempted murder in a court hearing after being moved from the New York State Police barracks in Jamestown after the attack on Friday.
Hadi Matar, a 42-year-old man from New Jersey, has been named as the knifeman who attacked the Satanic Verses author and left him with multiple knife wounds.
Salman Rushdie suffered multiple stab wounds, including one to the right side of his neck, and was lying in a pool of blood under his body after he was attacked at an event on Friday, according to a doctor who helped the author.
Witnesses saw the knifeman strike ten to 15 times in a matter of seconds before Sir Salman Rushdie, 75, fell to the floor covered in blood in New York State.