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

But after Iran announced that it would not enforce ... open image in gallery Salman Rushdie testifies on the witness stand gesturing how the attacker slashed his throat when he was attacked ...

Salman Rushdie took the stand on Tuesday morning in the trial of the man accused of trying to kill him and revealed how he believed he was about to die just after the harrowing knife attack.

Salman Rushdie on Tuesday came face to face with ... “It was a stab wound in my eye and intensely painful, and after, that I was screaming because of the pain and I couldn’t see out the ...

Sir Salman Rushdie has testified that he thought he was dying after a knife-wielding assailant stabbed him repeatedly on stage two years ago, leaving him blind in one eye. The renowned British ...

Outspoken author Salman Rushdie today revealed the first words he spoke after he was taken off a ventilator following a near-fatal knife attack, as he took the stand in a New York courtroom to ...

Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail on Tuesday the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him with a knife, leaving him ...

After an eight day trial, Hadi Matar, the man charged with attacking and stabbing author Salman Rushdie in August 2022, has been found guilty of attempted murder. Matar, 27, was on trial in ...

Rushdie had told jurors at the trial that Matar "was stabbing and slashing" at him during the event in August 2022 at an upscale cultural center in rural New York. "It was a stab wound in my eye, ...

After the verdict, Chief Public Defender Nathaniel Barone ... the writer’s organization of which Rushdie is a past president, said: “The conviction of Salman Rushdie’s attacker is an important step ...