Salman Rushdie's attacker, Hadi Matar, is convicted on attempted murder charges in the 2022 stabbing in New York.

Hadi Matar, 27, was found guilty of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie around 15 times during a lecture event at the Chautauqua Institution in 2022.

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.

Hadi Matar had pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault in connection with the 2022 attack at the Chautauqua Institution in southwestern New York.

A man who attacked Sir Salman Rushdie has been found guilty of attempted murder. Hadi Matar stabbed Rushdie over a dozen times as the award-winning author was about to deliver a lecture in upstate New York,

The author was speaking at a literary festival in western New York when Hadi Matar, then 24, stormed the stage and knifed him in a frenzied attack

Salman Rushdie’s attacker was convicted Friday ... Hadi Matar, 26, was found guilty by a Chautauqua County, New York, jury of rushing a stage where Rushdie, 77, was giving a lecture at the ...

By Aleksandra Michalska and Jonathan Allen MAYVILLE, New York (Reuters) - Hadi Matar was found guilty on Friday of attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie in an onstage stabbing attack at a New York arts institute in 2022.

(AP Photo/Adrian Kraus) Hadi Matar, accused of repeatedly stabbing Salman Rushdie as the renowned author was being introduced for a lecture in western New York, sits in court during his attempted murder trial, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Mayville ...

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. A jury also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — 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. Jurors delivered the ...

A man has been convicted of attempted murder for the 2022 on-stage attack on author Salman Rushdie, which left the novelist blind in one eye.