A New York jury deliberated less than two hours before returning a guilty verdict for a New Jersey man charged with the attempted murder of author Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in 2022. The jury also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault for wounding another man who was onstage with Rushdie at the …
The man accused of attacking author Salman Rushdie appeared in court Saturday and was charged with attempted murder and assault. An attorney for Hadi Matar, 24, entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, the Associated Press reported. Matar was ordered held in the Chautauqua County Jail without bail, Reuters said. Chautauqua County District Attorney …
Author Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator after a stabbing attack Friday morning in western New York and may lose an eye. “The news is not good,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, said in an update on his condition to the New York Times. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were …
Author Salman Rushdie is undergoing surgery in New York after a 24-year-old New Jersey man jumped onto a stage where he was speaking and stabbed him in the neck. Rushdie’s condition was not known, although a doctor who had been in the audience at the Chautauqua Institution described the writer’s wounds as “serious but recoverable.” …
