A jury also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault for wounding a man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time. The verdicts were delivered after less than two hours of deliberations following a ...

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. (WKBW) — A jury has found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution in August 2022. Matar had previously pleaded ...

“No, I do not,” Hadi Matar, 27, said when asked by Chautauqua County Judge David Foley whether he wished to take the stand. Earlier Thursday, prosecutors called a forensics expert as their final ...

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 ...

Hadi Matar, 26, was found guilty by a Chautauqua County, New York, jury of rushing a stage where Rushdie, 77, was giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institute on Aug. 12, 2022, in a bid to kill ...

It was the first time since the stabbing that the 77-year-old author came face-to-face with the man accused of trying to kill him.

A Chautauqua County jury found Hadi Matar, 27, of Fairview, New Jersey, guilty of the stabbing Rushdie as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. Matar's head was down as the jury ...

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, ...

The man, Hadi Matar, faces up to 32 years in prison. Prosecutors said he rushed onstage at an arts conference and stabbed the famed author about 15 times. By Lola Fadulu Lola Fadulu reported from ...

A jury has found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder and assault in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution in August 2022.