Hadi Matar, 27, also received a concurrent sentence of seven years plus three years of post-release supervision for a second-degree assault charge. Matar has been remanded to the New York State ...

Hadi Matar, the man who severely injured novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 stabbing attack, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison — the maximum for attempted murder. Matar, 27, was found ...

Jurors deliberated for less than two hours before returning a guilty verdict for Hadi Matar, 27, according to the AP. Matar was also found guilty of assaulting Henry Reese, the man who was ...

A jury also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault for wounding a man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time. The verdicts were delivered after less than two hours of deliberations following a ...

The trial of Hadi Matar, the man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie, is scheduled to begin on September 9, according to the prosecutor’s office and Matar’s defense attorney. In August ...

The Chautauqua county court in New York issued the sentence to Hadi Matar (27), of New Jersey, nearly three months after he was first convicted of attempted murder in the second degree.