Man who attacked author Salman Rushdie is sentenced to 25 years in prison

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Hadi Matar sentenced to 25 years for attempted murder; found guilty in February 2025 for stabbing Salman Rushdie during a lecture at Chautauqua Institution, New York, in August 2022; Rushdie, 77, left partially blind and with permanent nerve damage; Matar also convicted of second-degree assault for injuring a moderator; Matar's attack linked to a fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989; Matar faces additional federal terrorism charges; Rushdie's memoir, 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder', published in 2024.

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https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/g-s1-62464/rushdie-salman-attacker-guilty-sentence