Overview

• Hadi Matar, 27, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie and seven years for injuring another man, with sentences to run concurrently.
• The 2022 attack occurred during a literary event at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, where Matar stabbed Rushdie over a dozen times, causing severe injuries including blindness in one eye.
• Rushdie testified during the trial, recounting his near-death experience and the extensive recovery detailed in his 2024 memoir, 'Knife.'
• Prosecutors linked Matar's motive to a decades-old fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini and later endorsed by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
• Matar now faces a separate federal trial on terrorism-related charges, including allegations of providing material support to Hezbollah.