Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie by repeatedly stabbing him on stage following a fatwa over The Satanic Verse ...

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

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 ...

Salman Rushdie was the key witness during seven days of testimony, describing in chilling detail his near-fatal injuries and long and painful recovery.

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.Related video above: Judge denies bail for Rushdie's ...

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.

The jury deliberated for under two hours before returning the conviction for 27-year-old Hadi Matar. He was found guilty of second-degree attempted murder, as well as assault for injuries ...

Jurors, who deliberated for less than two hours, also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault for wounding a man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time. Matar ran onto the stage at the ...

Hadi Matar, 27, of Fairview, New Jersey, was convicted for a crime witnessed by hundreds, captured on video and the subject of “Knife,” Rushdie’s best-selling memoir about the attack and its ...

Hadi Matar now faces up to 25 years in prison, and will be sentenced on April 23, a court official said in a statement confirming the conviction on attempted murder and assault charges.

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 ...