Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author ...

In February, a jury found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie while the ...

A man who attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife in front of a stunned audience in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind ...

Hadi Matar, the defendant, said he believed Mr. Rushdie to be a hypocrite. His attack left the acclaimed author blind in one ...

Lawyers for New Jersey resident Hadi Matar said they planned to appeal the sentence, which was the maximum possible.

Renowned novelist Sir Salman Rushdie has backed out of a college commencement speech at the eleventh hour amid intensifying ...

Rushdie's assailant has been handed a 25-year jail term. A review of his book inspired by the horrific stabbing attack of ...

Two recent flare-ups over commencement speeches show how difficult—and necessary—truly defending free expression is.

Why did Salman Rushdie, famed author of “The Satanic Verses” and radical Islam’s most famous heretic, abruptly bow out of ...

The New Jersey man who tried to kill acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.Hadi Matar ...

The man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a Western New York arts institute in 2022 was ...

Salman Rushdie's attacker, Hadi Matar, receives 25-year sentence for attempted murder. Rushdie was stabbed during a lecture, ...