Hadi Matar

Hadi Matar, Accused Of Trying To Kill Salman Rushdie, Found Guilty

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New York: An American-Lebanese man was found guilty by a jury Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the “Satanic Verses” author. Hadi Matar now faces up to 25 years in prison, and will be sentenced on April 23, a court official said in … Read more

Court Hears Attacker Came “Dangerously Close” To Killing Salman Rushdie

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Washington: Prosecutors in the trial of the man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie told jurors Monday that the author came “dangerously close to dying” in a frenzied assault that left him blind in one eye. Hadi Matar, a 27-year-old Lebanese-American who said “free Palestine” as he was led into court, is charged with attempted murder … Read more