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Man convicted in terrorism trial over the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie
Jurors found Hadi Matar guilty of transnational terrorism, and prosecutors said the attack was driven by a decades-old fatwa and extremist messages.
- On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, a jury convicted Hadi Matar of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, exposing him to a potential life sentence.
- Matar stabbed Rushdie 15 times in August 2022 at the Chautauqua Institution, acting on a decades-old death threat tied to the author's 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses.
- Digital records from 2021 and 2022 show Matar tracking Rushdie's public appearances and messaging contacts that he "wanted everyone to know he was doing this for Hezbollah."
- Already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence for attempted murder, Matar faces additional federal penalties after declining to testify; defense lawyer Nathaniel Barone argued the government lacked proof of intent.
- An Iranian foundation maintains a bounty of more than $3 million for killing Rushdie, yet the author published a 2024 memoir and returned to fiction with last year's The Eleventh Hour.
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North Platte Nebraska's NewspaperSalman Rushdie attacker found guilty on all terrorism counts
A jury took about two hours to find Salman Rushdie's attacker guilty of all three terrorism counts he faced. Hadi Matar could spend the rest of his life in prison.
·Missoula, United States
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