Hadi Matar was convicted of stabbing the author more than a dozen times in 2022 as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

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 New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage has been convicted of attempted murder.

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. Matar, 27, can be seen in videos rushing the Chautauqua Institution's stage as Rushdie was being introduced to the audience for a talk about keeping writers safe from harm,

A New Jersey man who repeatedly stabbed author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage has been convicted of attempted murder.

Hadi Matar, the man who attacked Salman Rushdie in 2022, was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder and assault.

The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has declined to testify in his defense.