A jury on Friday convicted a New Jersey man of second-degree attempted murder and assault in the brutal stabbing of author ...

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

It was the first time since the stabbing that the 77-year-old author came face-to-face with the man accused of trying to kill him.

Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded the novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a New York arts institute, was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder.

Read More: Salman Rushdie Is Recovering ... Rushdie by a 2006 speech in which the leader of the militant group Hezbollah endorsed a decades-old fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.

A jury found 27-year-old Hadi Matar guilty of assault as well, for injuring another man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time.

The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture in New ... a 2006 speech in which the leader of the militant group Hezbollah endorsed a decades-old fatwa, or edict, calling for ...

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Feb. 11 (UPI) --Renowned British-Indian author Salman Rushdie testified Tuesday in the trial of the man accused of attempting to kill him in 2022 in New York. "I became aware of a great quantity ...

Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded prize-winning novelist Salman ... to murder Rushdie as an act of terrorism and of providing material support to Hezbollah in Lebanon, which ...