Hadi Matar had pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault in connection with the 2022 attack at the ...

Hadi Matar, 27, was found guilty of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie around 15 times during a lecture event at the Chautauqua Institution in 2022.

Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded the novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a New York arts institute, was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder.

Read More: Salman Rushdie Is Recovering ... Rushdie by a 2006 speech in which the leader of the militant group Hezbollah endorsed a decades-old fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.

A jury found 27-year-old Hadi Matar guilty of assault as well, for injuring another man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time.

The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture in New ... a 2006 speech in which the leader of the militant group Hezbollah endorsed a decades-old fatwa, or edict, calling for ...

The charges allege that Matar may have been motivated by an endorsement of a fatwa by Hezbollah. Related Writer Salman Rushdie testifies in New York trial about his attempted murder in 2022 Man ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. -- A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder and assault for stabbing author Salman Rushdie ... was motivated to attack Rushdie by a 2006 speech in which the leader of ...

Feb. 11 (UPI) --Renowned British-Indian author Salman Rushdie testified Tuesday in the trial of the man accused of attempting to kill him in 2022 in New York. "I became aware of a great quantity ...

Hadi Matar received a guilty verdict on two charges stemming from a violent incident in which he'd stabbed Rushdie multiple times during an appearance.

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — With a mix of humor and graphic detail, Salman Rushdie calmly told a jury ... born in the U.S. to immigrants from Yaroun in Hezbollah-dominated southern Lebanon near the Israeli ...