Hadi Matar convicted in terrorism trial over Salman Rushdie stabbing

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Hadi Matar was convicted of federal terrorism charges for the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie. The jury found him guilty on all counts, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.

A man was convicted on Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel The Satanic Verses. A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism. A message seeking comment was sent to Matar’s lawyers. Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack on an...