'You are next': Harry Potter author JK Rowling receives death threat after condemning attack on Salman Rushdie

Harry Potter author JK Rowling received a death threat on Twitter on Saturday following her condemnation of the attack on Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie.

The 57-year-old writer took to Twitter to express her distress over the news of Rushdie's attack calling it 'horrifying news' and saying, "Feeling very sick right now. Let him be ok."

To this, a user commented on her post: "Don't worry you are next."


Rowling later posted screenshots of replies to her tweet by user Meer Asif Aziz, who had also described the attacker Hadi Matar as a "revolutionary Shia fighter" who followed the fatwa of the late Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini."

The Twitter user Meer Asif Aziz - who describes himself in his bio as ‘student, social activist, political activist and research activist -also praised Hadi Matar, the assailant from New Jersey who stabbed Rushfie several times during a literary event in western New York on Friday.


To the tweet by Rowling on the attack on Rushdie, Aziz responded saying, “Don’t worry, you are next." Rowling tagged the Twitter support team and asked for assistance in view of the threat.

The British author later thanked her well-wishers, who had raised safety concerns and said she has received help and that the police are looking into the threat.