Man convicted in terrorism trial over 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie
A man was convicted Wednesday (July 29, 2026) of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a
A man was convicted Wednesday (July 29, 2026) of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel “The Satanic Verses”.
A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism. Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack on an amphitheatre stage.
The federal conviction carries a potential life sentence. Rushdie, who was about to speak on writers' safety, was slashed 15 times in front of a
stunned audience. He was gravely wounded and lost the sight in his right eye.
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