A trial has begun for the man accused of violently stabbing Salman Rushdie onstage at a literary event in 2022, which left the British author permanently blind in one eye.

FILE – Hadi Matar, charged with attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie more than a dozen times, is escorted into the courtroom for a hearing in Chautauqua County Court, Oct. 4, 2024 ...

MORE: Salman Rushdie speaks of stabbing that almost claimed his life: 'Taking power back' Rushdie, 77, took the stand during the trial, vividly describing the attack that blinded him in one eye.

The trial of Hadi Matar, the man who attacked Salman Rushdie in 2022, is set to begin, with a tricky jury selection underway. The India-born British-American author, 77, narrowly avoided death but ...

Salman Rushdie Testifies at Trial of Man Accused of Stabbing Him: 'I Was Screaming Because of the Pain' The Satanic Verses author was left blind in one eye after a then-24-year-old man allegedly ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — In 2022, Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture before a live audience in western New York when a man ran towards him and plunged a knife into the author’s hand as ...

The New Jersey man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on stage at a speaking event in 2022 rejected a plea deal that involved state and potential federal charges, attorneys said Tuesday ...

The trial against the man accused of attempting to murder author Salman Rushdie in a stabbing attack in western New York got underway on Tuesday, with officials saying Rushdie is expected to ...

Salman Rushdie peeled back a patch covering his damaged right eye, exposing to jurors the gruesome consequences of a 2022 stabbing attack in western New York, as he testified Tuesday against the ...

Salman Rushdie testified at the trial for the man accused of stabbing him repeatedly onstage at a literary festival in New York state in 2022.