Salman Rushdie was speaking at a literary festival in western New York state when Hadi Matar, then 24, stormed the stage and ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022. A jury also found Hadi Matar, 27, ...

Hadi Matar was found guilty of second-degree attempted murder and second-degree assault for the attack on Salman Rushdie. Matar faces up to 25 years in prison for the charges. (This story was ...

MAYVILLE, New York (Reuters) - Hadi Matar was found guilty on Friday of attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie in an onstage stabbing attack at a New York arts institute in 2022. Matar, 27, ...

Now Matar is before a jury for the attack and ... shares message of support after ‘Friday’s nightmare’ Salman Rushdie: Hadi Matar pleads not guilty to attempted murder of author Law ...

The conviction of the man, Hadi Matar, 27, followed harrowing testimony from Mr. Rushdie, 77, who said he had been struck by his attacker’s dark, ferocious eyes. He told the jury that at first ...

A man charged with the attempted murder of renowned novelist Salman Rushdie in 2022 was found guilty in a New York court on Friday. A Chautauqua County jury found Hadi Matar, 27, of Fairview ...

Hadi Matar now faces up to 25 years in prison ... Matar's legal team had sought to prevent witnesses from characterizing Rushdie as a victim of persecution following Iran's 1989 fatwa calling for his ...

Salman Rushdie’s attacker was convicted Friday of attempted murder for repeatedly stabbing the famed author in a bloody horror that left him blind in one eye. Hadi Matar, 26, was found guilty by ...

Hadi Matar had pleaded not guilty to charges in the 2022 attack. A jury has convicted a New Jersey man for attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie while the author ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie declined to testify in his defense Thursday as his lawyers rested their case without calling any ...