Salman Rushdie’s striker found guilty of attempted murder and attack

A man from New Jersey, who stabbed the famous British-Indian author Sir Salman Rushdie repeatedly at a New York lecture, has been convicted of attempted murder and attack.

The 27 -year -old Hadi Matar, is now a sentence of more than 30 years in prison.

The attack in August 2022 left Sir Salman with severe injuries, including liver damage, loss of vision in one eye and a paralyzed hand caused by damage to the nerves of his hand.

On Friday, the jury’s sentence on Friday came after a two -week trial of Chautauqua County in Western New York, near the scene of the attack.

The jurors also found Matar guilty of attacking interviewing Henry Reese, who was on stage with the author. D -Reese suffered a slight injury to the head during the attack.

The date of Matar’s sentence is scheduled for April 23.

Sir Salman, 77, testifies that he is on stage at the Historic Institute Chautauqua when he saw a man who rushes to him.

Recalling the incident, he said he was struck by the attacker’s eyes, “who are dark and looked very fierce.”

Initially, he thought he had been hit before he knew he had been stabbed – a total of 15 times – with wounds of the eye, cheek, neck, chest, torso and thigh.

The attack took place more than 35 years after the publication of Sir Salman’s novel, The Satanic Poems, was published for the first time.

The novel, inspired by the life of Muslim Prophet Mohammed, has elicited outrage among some Muslims who consider its content as blasphemy. The book has been banned in some countries after being published in 1988.

Sir Salman faced countless threats to death and was forced to hide nine years after Iran’s religious leader issued a Fatva – or a decree – calling for the author’s death because of the book.

But in recent years, the author said he believed that the threats against him had declined.

During the final arguments of the trial on Friday, lawyer’s prosecutor’s office Jason Schmidt has played a video in the slow movement of the attack, the Associated Press reports.

“I want you to look at the target nature of the attack,” said G -N Schmidt in court, according to the newsletter. “There were many people that day, but there was only one person who was directed,” he told jurors.

During the two -week process, defense lawyer Andrew Brautigan said prosecutors had failed to prove that Matar had intended to kill Sir Salman. Matar had pleaded guilty.

His lawyers refused to call their own witnesses and Matar did not testify in his defense.

In an interview with The New York Post in 2022, Matar praised Iran Ayatola Homeini’s supreme leader for calling for Sir Salman’s execution.

“I don’t think he’s a very good person,” said Matar to the author. “He is someone who attacked Islam.”

He added that he had read only a few pages of the satanic poems.

Matar, born in Fairview in New Jersey, to parents emigrated by Lebanon, has also been accused of a separate federal case of providing significant support to the military group based in Lebanon Hezbollah, according to an accusation unforgettable in July.

Hezbollah is appointed as a terrorist organization from the Western states, Israel, the Arab Gulf countries and the Arab League.