The author, who was stabbed and seriously injured onstage last year, said he was alarmed by 'the extraordinary attack' on ...

By Alyce McFadden Reporting from the courtroom in Mayville, N.Y. Published May 16, 2025Updated May 17, 2025, 1:52 a.m. ET The man convicted of trying to stab Salman Rushdie to death was sentenced ...

A man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie, leaving the author blind in one eye, has been jailed for 25 years. Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February. Prosecutors ...

The man who left Salman Rushdie partially blind after stabbing him at a lecture in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday, May 16, The Associated Press reports. Hadi Matar, 27 ...

The crazed fanatic who tried to stab Salman Rushdie to death on a New York lecture stage — blinding the author in one eye — was sentenced Friday to the maximum term of 25 years in prison.

A man convicted of stabbing award-winning British author Salman Rushdie in 2022 was sentenced on Friday to 25 years in prison, the maximum possible term. Hadi Matar, 27, was found guilty in ...

An American-Lebanese man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie with a knife at a New York cultural centre in 2022. Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted ...

Author Salman Rushdie is helped by people after he was stabbed at the ChautauquaCharles Savenor/LOCAL NEWS X/TMX/via REUTERS Hadi Matar, the 26-year-old who attempted to assassinate author Salman ...

The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison. A jury found ...

Hadi Matar was convicted in the 2022 stabbing attack on the author. A New Jersey man convicted of attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie, while on stage at a ...

Hadi Matar, the man who severely injured novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 stabbing attack, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison — the maximum for attempted murder. Matar, 27, was found ...