The authorities in the UK stated on Sunday that they had been investigating a web-based risk in opposition to the writer J.Okay. Rowling after she supplied assist on social media to Salman Rushdie, the novelist who was attacked final week at an occasion in western New York.
Hours after the assault on Mr. Rushdie, who was stabbed roughly 10 instances as he ready to talk on the Chautauqua Establishment, Ms. Rowling tweeted her condolences. She first wrote on Twitter, “Horrifying information,” then added: “Feeling very sick proper now. Let him be OK.”
In response, a consumer with the deal with @MeerAsifAziz1 replied: “Don’t fear you might be subsequent.”
The tweet was later deleted, and the account was suspended by Sunday night.
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland stated that the authorities had obtained a report of a web-based risk in opposition to Ms. Rowling and that an investigation was ongoing.
On Saturday, Ms. Rowling, 57, who wrote the award-winning “Harry Potter” books, assailed Twitter for permitting the social media account that lodged the risk to stay lively.
“@TwitterSupport These are your pointers, proper?” she wrote. “Violence: You could not threaten violence in opposition to a person or a bunch of individuals. We additionally prohibit the glorification of violence…”
Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
On Sunday, Warner Bros. Discovery, the leisure firm behind the “Harry Potter” movie diversifications, supplied a press release condemning the assault on Ms. Rowling.
“We stand along with her and all of the authors, storytellers and creators who bravely specific their creativity and opinions,” the firm stated in a press release, which additionally supplied condolences to Mr. Rushdie and his household.
“The corporate strongly condemns any type of risk, violence or intimidation when opinions, beliefs and ideas would possibly differ,” the assertion stated.
Mr. Rushdie went into hiding in 1989, shortly after the publication of his novel “The Satanic Verses.” The ebook, which contained fictionalized depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, offended many Muslims, and resulted in a fatwa, or non secular edict, from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme chief of Iran, who urged Muslims to kill the writer. In 1998, the nation’s president stated Iran not supported the edict.
As Mr. Rushdie ready to talk on the Chautauqua Establishment, a person, later recognized by the police as Hadi Matar, 24, of New Jersey, stormed the stage and stabbed him. Mr. Rushdie stays in a hospital in Erie, Pa., and his agent stated on Sunday that he was recovering.
Mr. Matar has pleaded not responsible within the assault.
