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 ...

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 ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — With a mix of humor and graphic detail, Salman Rushdie calmly told a jury Tuesday about the frenzied moments in August 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western ...

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 ...

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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 ...