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 ...

Hadi Matar, 26, was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February over the horrific attack that saw him try to carry out a decades-old fatwa by ambushing the 77-year-old novelist as he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, was found guilty of ...

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 ...

Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted of attempted murder back in February, and the 25-year term handed down is the maximum penalty. Matar will also concurrently serve a seven-year sentence for his ...

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 ...

Additional charges are possible, the prosecutor said. The defendant, Hadi Matar, 24, who was apprehended on Aug. 12 after authorities say he rushed the stage of the Chautauqua Institution's ...

A rash decision to attend an anti-Qaddafi protest in London reverberates in Hisham Matar’s poignant and quietly suspenseful third novel. By Peter C. Baker Peter C. Baker’s novel “Planes ...

Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, “The Return,” mourning his homeland and his father. In his new novel, he turns to the untranslatability of exile — and friendship. By Joumana ...