Salman Rushdie was speaking at a literary festival in western New York state when Hadi Matar, then 24, stormed the stage and knifed him in a frenzied attack. Matar was found guilty on Friday.

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie ... stage with Rushdie at the time. The verdicts were delivered after less than two ...

Rushdie, 77, took the stand during the trial, vividly describing ... Meditations After an Attempted Murder," which was published last year. In this Sept. 21, 2024, file photo, Salman Rushdie ...

Salman Rushdie says he has 'crazy dreams,' is in therapy after stabbing attack Rushdie ... Matar did not testify at his trial. His defense lawyers told jurors that the prosecutors had not proved ...

Rushdie had told jurors at the trial that Matar "was stabbing and slashing" at him during the event in August 2022 at an upscale cultural center in rural New York. "It was a stab wound in my eye ...

Jurors began deliberating in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with stabbing and trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage. The jury got the case after lawyers delivered closing ...

A man charged with the attempted murder of renowned novelist Salman Rushdie ... Throughout the two-week trial, the prosecution called over a dozen witnesses, including Rushdie himself, the ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — The man who repeatedly and nearly fatally stabbed the renowned novelist Salman Rushdie in 2022 was found guilty of attempted murder and assault on Friday ... more than a dozen ...

After an eight day trial, Hadi Matar, the man charged with attacking and stabbing author Salman Rushdie in August 2022, has been found guilty of attempted murder. Matar, 27, was on trial in ...

A New York jury has convicted Hadi Matar of trying to kill Salman Rushdie, a Booker Prize-winning ... terrorism charges related to the stabbing. A trial date for those charges has yet to be ...

Mayville, NY (WJET/WFXP) — The attempted murder trial of author Salman Rushdie will soon begin with jury selection taking place this morning. The trial followed efforts to relocate the trial ...