Hadi Matar now faces up to 25 years in prison, and will be sentenced on April 23, a court official said in a statement confirming the conviction on attempted murder and assault charges.
The man, Hadi Matar, faces up to 32 years in prison. Prosecutors said he rushed onstage at an arts conference and stabbed the famed author about 15 times. By Lola Fadulu Lola Fadulu reported from ...
The jury deliberated for under two hours before returning the conviction for 27-year-old Hadi Matar. He was found guilty of second-degree attempted murder, as well as assault for injuries ...
A jury also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault for wounding a man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time. The verdicts were delivered after less than two hours of deliberations following a ...
Hadi Matar was found guilty of second-degree attempted murder and second-degree assault for the attack on Salman Rushdie. Matar faces up to 25 years in prison for the charges. (This story was ...
A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022.Related video above: Judge denies bail for Rushdie's ...
Jurors, who deliberated for less than two hours, also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault for wounding a man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time. Matar ran onto the stage at the ...
Hadi Matar stabbed Salman Rushdie multiple times in the head, neck, torso and left hand, blinding his right eye and damaging his liver and intestines Hadi Matar, an American-Lebanese man who ...
Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie by repeatedly stabbing him on stage following a fatwa over The Satanic Verses. Matar faces up to 25 years in prison with ...
A Chautauqua County jury found Hadi Matar, 27, of Fairview, New Jersey, guilty of the stabbing Rushdie as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. Matar's head was down as the jury ...