A jury has found Hadi Matar guilty of all federal charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism, for the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie.
Attack and previous sentence
Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack on an amphitheatre stage. The federal conviction carries a potential life sentence.
In August 2022, before Rushdie was about to speak on writers' safety, he was slashed 15 times in front of a stunned audience. He was gravely wounded and lost the sight in his right eye.
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Background
Rushdie has faced a decades-old death threat over one of his books.
