Salman Rushdie was speaking at a literary festival in western New York state when Hadi Matar, then 24, stormed the stage and knifed him in a frenzied attack. Matar was found guilty on Friday.

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — The man who repeatedly and nearly fatally stabbed the renowned novelist Salman Rushdie in 2022 was found guilty of attempted murder and assault on Friday. Hadi Matar, 27, of Fairview, ...

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 ...

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, guilty of assault ...

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 ...

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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, was found guilty of attempted ...

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 ...

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 murder over supposed blasphemy in The Satanic ...

A New Jersey man who repeatedly stabbed author Salman Rushdie on stage at a New York speaking engagement was convicted of ...

The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture in New York was convicted Friday on attempted murder charges. Jurors, who deliberated for less than two hours, also found Hadi Matar ...

Hadi Matar, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, listens to his defense team in Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025.