
Hadi Matar sentenced to 25 years for attempted murder of Salman Rushdie
Hadi Matar, the man convicted of stabbing the blasphemous author Salman Rushdie in an attack at a New York lecture in 2022, was sentenced to 25 years in prison today. The attack occurred on August 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution, where Rushdie was …