Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author ...

Salman Rushdie attacker sentenced to 25 years for frenzied stabbing at lecture that left author blind in one eye - A New York ...

Lawyers for New Jersey resident Hadi Matar said they planned to appeal the sentence, which was the maximum possible.

A New York court on Friday handed a 25-year sentence to Hadi Matar, an American-Lebanese man who stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie at a cultural ... Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for its ...