The Latest Breaking News from Hadi Matar

The British-American novelist was seriously wounded and blinded in one eye in the August 2022 attack. Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty to the charges

Satanic Verses writer told Hadi Matar’s trial in New York how he narrowly avoided death after attacker with ‘ferocious’ eyes left him in ‘lake’ of blood

Jury convicts Hadi Matar, 27, charged with trying to kill author at literary gathering in New York state in 2022

Hadi Matar, accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie, chooses not to testify in his defense. Rushdie sustains serious injuries in the attack.

The trial of Hadi Matar, accused of attempting to kill author Salman Rushdie, reaches its conclusion with closing arguments imminent.

Lawyers are set to deliver their closing arguments Friday in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a western New York lecture stage

The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has declined to testify in his defense

Language can ‘open eyes’, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices

Henry Reese, 75, had just sat down to interview Rushdie when the author was stabbed in a frenzied knife attack

A man injured alongside author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack on a New York lecture stage told jurors that he tried to stop the assault once he realized it wasn't a prank and was left with a gash above his eye

Hadi Matar, 27, is on trial for the attempted murder of ‘The Satanic Verses’ author in August 2022