{"id":26177,"date":"2025-05-16T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/man-who-stabbed-salman-rushdie-on-new-york-lecture-stage-gets-25-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:50:42","slug":"man-who-stabbed-salman-rushdie-on-new-york-lecture-stage-gets-25-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/man-who-stabbed-salman-rushdie-on-new-york-lecture-stage-gets-25-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie on New York lecture stage gets 25 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The man convicted of stabbing <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/salman-rushdie-the-eleventh-hour-release-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Salman Rushdie<\/a><\/span> on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison. <\/p>\n<p>A jury found <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/salman-rushdie-stabbing-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Hadi Matar<\/a><\/span>, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February.  <\/p>\n<p>During the trial, the 77-year-old author was the key witness, describing how he believed he was dying when a masked attacker plunged a knife into his head and body more than a dozen times as he was being introduced at the Chautauqua Institution to speak about writer safety.<\/p>\n<p>Rushdie did not return to court to the western New York courtroom for his assailant&#8217;s sentencing but submitted a victim impact statement.\u00a0    <\/p>\n<p>Before being sentenced, Matar stood and made a statement about freedom of speech in which he called Rushdie a hypocrite.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/16\/954e5fb9-0ed3-4b18-ade2-b069a853ad69\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/c9c601eb6048401fb86ddaeb12d9658e\/gettyimages-2172645400.jpg?v=6df9366690ed146f169dd0670c453f91#\" alt=\"Cliveden Literary Festival 2024 \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/16\/954e5fb9-0ed3-4b18-ade2-b069a853ad69\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/c9c601eb6048401fb86ddaeb12d9658e\/gettyimages-2172645400.jpg?v=6df9366690ed146f169dd0670c453f91 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/16\/954e5fb9-0ed3-4b18-ade2-b069a853ad69\/thumbnail\/1240x826g2\/66325bfb443f4ff59890d768109e8249\/gettyimages-2172645400.jpg?v=6df9366690ed146f169dd0670c453f91 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">WINDSOR, ENGLAND &#8211; SEPTEMBER 21: Salman Rushdie, author, during the Cliveden Literary Festival 2024 at Cliveden House on September 21, 2024 in Windsor, England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                David Levenson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Matar received the maximum 25-year sentence for the attempted murder of Rushdie and seven years for wounding a man who was on stage with him. The sentences must run concurrently because both victims were injured in the same event, District Attorney Jason Schmidt said. <\/p>\n<p>In requesting the maximum sentence, Schmidt told the judge that Matar &#8220;chose this. He designed this attack so that he could inflict the most amount of damage, not just upon Mr. Rushdie, but upon this community, upon the 1,400 people who were there to watch it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Public defender Nathaniel Barone pointed out that Matar had a otherwise clean criminal record and disputed that the people in the audience should be considered victims, suggesting that a sentence of 12 years would be appropriate. <\/p>\n<p>Rushdie spent 17 days at a Pennsylvania hospital and more than three weeks at a New York City rehabilitation center. The author of &#8220;Midnight&#8217;s Children,&#8221; &#8220;The Moor&#8217;s Last Sigh&#8221; and &#8220;Victory City&#8221; detailed his recovery in his 2024 memoir, &#8220;Knife.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Matar next faces a federal trial on terrorism-related charges. While the first trial focused mostly on the details of the knife attack itself, the next one is expected to delve into the more complicated issue of motive.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/28\/f518c73a-2aec-4ea3-9526-97bd739eb7aa\/thumbnail\/620x413\/311b717dda81ca3ff4d3226137739eee\/ap25052547318760.jpg?v=6df9366690ed146f169dd0670c453f91#\" alt=\"Salman Rushdie Assault \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/28\/f518c73a-2aec-4ea3-9526-97bd739eb7aa\/thumbnail\/620x413\/311b717dda81ca3ff4d3226137739eee\/ap25052547318760.jpg?v=6df9366690ed146f169dd0670c453f91 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/28\/f518c73a-2aec-4ea3-9526-97bd739eb7aa\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/52f6c4d93bc295194aeecc1899508734\/ap25052547318760.jpg?v=6df9366690ed146f169dd0670c453f91 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Hadi Matar, right, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, stands next to public defender Nathaniel Barone in Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Feb. 21, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Adrian Kraus\/AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Authorities said Matar, a U.S. citizen, was attempting to carry out a decades-old fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie&#8217;s death when he traveled from his home in Fairview, New Jersey, to target Rushdie at the summer retreat about 70 miles southwest of Buffalo.  <\/p>\n<p>Matar believed the fatwa, first issued in 1989, was backed by the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah and endorsed in a 2006 speech by the group&#8217;s secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, according to federal prosecutors.  <\/p>\n<p>Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the fatwa after publication of Rushdie&#8217;s novel, &#8220;The Satanic Verses,&#8221; which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Rushdie spent years in hiding, but after Iran announced it would not enforce the decree he traveled freely over the past quarter century.  <\/p>\n<p>Matar pleaded not guilty to a three-count indictment charging him with providing material to terrorists, attempting to provide material support to Hezbollah and engaging in terrorism transcending national boundaries. <\/p>\n<p>Video of the assault, captured by the venue&#8217;s cameras and played at trial, show Matar approaching the seated Rushdie from behind and reaching around him to stab at his torso with a knife. As the audience gasps and screams, Rushdie is seen raising his arms and rising from his seat, walking and stumbling for a few steps with Matar hanging on, swinging and stabbing until they both fall and are surrounded by onlookers who rush in to separate them.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/salman-rushdie-on-2022-attack-that-nearly-took-his-life-and-writing-new-book-knife-60-minutes-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Rushdie told 60 Minutes<\/a><\/span> last year that before the attack, he &#8220;kind of had a premonition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, I had a dream of being attacked in an amphitheater,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But it was a kind of Roman Empire dream, you know? As\u2014 as\u2014 as if I was in the Colosseum and it was just somebody with a spear stabbing downwards, and I was rolling around on the floor trying to get away from him. And I woke up and was quite shaken by it. And I had to go to Chautauqua, you know? And I said to my wife, Eliza, I said, &#8216;You know, I\u2014 I don&#8217;t want to go.&#8217;\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then I thought, &#8216;Don&#8217;t be silly. 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