A person was attempted on Friday to stab novelist Salman Rushdie in New York about three years ago.
Rushdie, an atheist,, born in a Muslim Kashmiri family in India, has faced the threat of his novel “The Satanic Verses” in 1988.
The book was vested as blasphemy by the then-Supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran.
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27, Hadi Matar of New Jersey, was found guilty by a court in Meville, New York, after consulting less than two hours.
On August 12, 2022, Matar attended stage at the Chautauqua Institute at the Arts Foundation and stabbed Rushadi more than a dozen times with a six -inch blade.
The attack left the 77 -year -old prizewining novelist Blind in One I.
So Rushdie thus obtained injuries in his head, neck, torso and left hand. Their liver and intestines were greatly damaged, requiring emergency surgery and recovery of months.
After the attack, peas told New York Post After watching the advertisement of the Rushdi event, he traveled from his home in New Yasie as he disliked the novelist and said that Rushdie had attacked Islam.
Matar, a dual citizen from her original United States and Lebanon, said in an interview that she was surprised that Rushdie had survived.
At the same time, BEF Founder, Peas convicted an attack in the second degree in the second degree.
The second sentence was ordered to stab a non-profit group co-founder Henry Reese, which helps the exile writers who spoke with Rushdie that morning.
Peas did not testify to their tests. His defense lawyers argued that the prosecutors had not proved beyond proper doubt that the criminal intentions required to attempt to attempt to murder.
Rushdie was a major witness during seven days of testimony, giving details in the graphic and threatened their lives to injuries and long and patinal recovery.
Rushdie had told the gamblers that he was left “shouting” and later “dying with me” before he was a helicopter in a trauma hospital.
The defendant faces up to 25 years behind bars
During his sentence hearing on 23 April, peas could now get a jail of up to 25 years.
He faces federal allegations in a separate trial in Buffalo brought by prosecutors in Western New York, alleging Rushdi of attempting to kill as an act of terrorism.
Prosecutors allege that Mater provided material assistance to the armed group Hizbullah in Lebanon, which the US has nominated as a terrorist organization.
