Hadi Matar, a 27-year-old American-Lebanese man, was sentenced to 25 years in jail for stabbing writer Salman Rushdie in August 2022 on the Chautauqua Establishment in New York. Matar was convicted in February 2025 of tried homicide and assault after attacking Rushdie on stage, leaving the 77-year-old writer blind in a single eye and with a number of stab wounds. The sentencing, reported on Might 16, 2025, additionally included seven years for assaulting one other particular person, Henry Reese, throughout the incident. Prosecutors said Matar acted to hold out a fatwa in opposition to Rushdie, issued in 1989 by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini over Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses. Rushdie, who testified throughout the trial, described the traumatic assault in his 2024 memoir Knife.
Man Who Stabbed Author Salman Rushdie Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison
