Jurors have watched videos showing Salman Rushdie being repeatedly stabbed on a stage in western New York while audience members gasped in horror at the attack that left the prized-winning novelist seriously wounded and blinded in one eye.

Jurors who will determine the fate of a man who is accused of attempting to kill a world-renowned author by stabbing him multiple times two and a half years ago were shown videos of the event. On Friday,

Salman Rushdie peeled back a patch covering his damaged right eye as he testified Tuesday against the New Jersey man accused of trying to kill him.

Author Salman Rushdie has taken the stand in a New York courtroom to testify against the man charged with stabbing him in a frenzied knife attack.