The religious decree, like one issued against author Salman Rushdie, calls on Muslims to bring down the American and Israeli ...

A top Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling ...

Iran’s then Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared Rushdie’s novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ to be blasphemous. He ...

That fatwa remains in effect. On Aug. 12, 2022, Rushdie was repeatedly stabbed during a lecture in New York, resulting in the loss of sight in one eye and severe injuries; Hadi Matar was later ...

The New Jersey man, Hadi Matar, convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022 has been sentenced to serve 25 years in prison Updated - May 17, 2025 10:10 am IST ...

Hadi Matar was found guilty of second-degree attempted murder and second-degree assault after a two-week trial in February in Chautauqua County Court.

A New York court on Friday handed a 25-year sentence to Hadi Matar, an American-Lebanese man who stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie at a cultural event in New York in 2022. Matar, 27, was convicted ...

Matar has been remanded to the New York State Department of Corrections. Hadi Matar, 27, of New Jersey, appears in Chautauqua County Court on Feb. 10, 2025.

Hadi Matar, 27, was found guilty in February of attempted murder and assault in connection to the knife attack that left Rushdie blind in one eye. Rusdie, 77, was stabbed on stage at the ...

Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture and wounding another person on stage.

Hadi Matar, 26, had been found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February over the horror attack that saw him ambush the 77-year-old novelist as he was giving a lecture at the Chautauqua In… ...

Authorities said Matar, a U.S. citizen, was attempting to carry out a decades-old fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death when he traveled from his home in Fairview, New Jersey, to target ...