Salman Rushdie was speaking at a literary festival in western New York state when Hadi Matar, then 24, stormed the stage and knifed him in a frenzied attack. Matar was found guilty on Friday.

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie ... stage with Rushdie at the time. The verdicts were delivered after less than two ...

Rushdie, 77, took the stand during the trial, vividly describing ... Meditations After an Attempted Murder," which was published last year. In this Sept. 21, 2024, file photo, Salman Rushdie ...

Salman Rushdie says he has 'crazy dreams,' is in therapy after stabbing attack Rushdie ... Matar did not testify at his trial. His defense lawyers told jurors that the prosecutors had not proved ...

Jurors began deliberating in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with stabbing and trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage. The jury got the case after lawyers delivered ...

Rushdie had told jurors at the trial that Matar "was stabbing and slashing" at him during the event in August 2022 at an upscale cultural center in rural New York. "It was a stab wound in my eye ...

After an eight day trial, Hadi Matar, the man charged with attacking and stabbing author Salman Rushdie in August 2022, has been found guilty of attempted murder. Matar, 27, was on trial in ...

A New York jury has convicted Hadi Matar of trying to kill Salman Rushdie, a Booker Prize-winning ... terrorism charges ...

A man charged with the attempted murder of renowned novelist Salman Rushdie ... Throughout the two-week trial, the prosecution called over a dozen witnesses, including Rushdie himself, the ...

Rushdie was about to speak in front of an audience at the amphitheater when a masked man rushed at him onstage, stabbing and slashing him more than a dozen times. On the second day of the trial ...