Man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie on stage sentenced to 25 years in prison

Assailant who stabbed author Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years

The man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a Western New York arts institute in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday (May 16) for an attack that also wounded a second man, the district attorney said. Rushdie, 77, has faced death threats since the 1988 publica

Hadi Matar attacked the writer with a knife, causing him to go blind in one eye and severely injure his left hand.

Hadi Matar stabbed him on stage at a literary conference in New York State in 2022.

The author was attacked during an event in 2022, lost an eye and part of the drive of one hand. The writer testified about the attack that nearly cost him his life. His aggressor, Hadi Matar, received 25 years in prison for attempted murder.

Sentence Is In For American Who Stabbed Novelist Salman Rushdie

The 27-year-old New Jersey man who was convicted in February of stabbing and partially blinding famed novelist Salman Rushdie was hit with the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison on Friday.Hadi Matar was convicted of second-degree attempted murder for the August 2022 stabbing attack that also injured the event’s moderator, Henry Reese, the co-founder of Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum, which helps exiled writers, Reuters reported. Rushdie — who s…

That assassin, who stabbed the writer Salman Rushdie in August 2022, must have been detained for 25 years. After the sentence for attempted murder, the sentence was now fixed. In front of hundreds of eyewitnesses, Hadi Matar, U.S. citizens with Lebanese roots, had stabbed the author. In the process, the victim's optic nerve was cut – it is blind in one eye. Victim: "I was quite clear that I was dying"Matar had pleaded innocent despite the many e…