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Author Salman Rushdie's assailant sentenced to 25 years in prison
Hadi Matar was convicted in February of attempted murder and assault for the stabbing
- PUBLISHED: Fri 16 May 2025, 7:18 PM
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- AFP
An American-Lebanese man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack at a New York cultural center.
Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted in February of attempted murder and assault for the stabbing, which left Rushdie blind in one eye.