The man charged with stabbing author Sir Salman Rushdie has rejected a plea deal that would have shortened his state prison term but exposed him to a federal terrorism-related charge, the suspect’s lawyer said. Hadi Matar, 26, has been held without bail since the 2022 attack, in which he is accused of stabbing Sir Salman […]
MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie is not interested in an offered plea deal that would shorten his time in state prison but expose him to federal prison on a separate terrorism-related charge, his lawyer said Tuesday. Hadi Matar sat silently in Chautauqua County Court as […]
Sir Salman Rushdie has revealed he had a cancer scare not long after he was repeatedly stabbed during a literary event in New York. The 76-year-old Indian-born British author suffered severe, life-changing injuries including losing sight in one eye following the violent knife attack which occurred ahead of him delivering a lecture at the Chautauqua […]
Salman Rushdie has said he did not want to attend the talk where he was attacked in 2022 after having a premonition of the incident. The author suffered life-changing injuries in the knife attack, including the loss of his right eye, while preparing to deliver a speech on free speech in upstate New York. In […]
Salman Rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his life. In 1989 Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared his novel, “The Satanic Verses,” blasphemous, an insult to Islam, and called for the Indian-born writer’s assassination. Rushdie went into hiding with around the clock police protection for 10 years. He eventually moved to the U.S. […]
The man charged with stabbing Sir Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, is allowed to seek material related to Sir Salman’s forthcoming memoir about the attack before standing trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday. Jury selection in the trial of Hadi Matar for attempted murder and assault was originally scheduled to start on January […]
Sir Salman Rushdie’s plans to publish a book about a 2022 attempt on his life may delay the trial of his alleged attacker, which is scheduled to begin next week, lawyers said. Hadi Matar, the man charged with repeatedly stabbing Sir Salman as the author was being introduced for a lecture, is entitled to the […]