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Attempted second-degree murder. second-degree assault. On August 12, 2022, novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times as he was about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States. [4] [5] [6] A 24-year-old suspect, Hadi Matar, was arrested directly and charged the following day with ...
In this August 2022 file photo, Hadi Matar, the man accused in the attempted murder of British author Salman Rushdie, appears in court for a procedural hearing at Chautauqua County Courthouse in ...
Hadi Matar, 26, has been held without bail since his 2022 arrest, immediately after allegedly attacking the internationally acclaimed writer in front of a stunned audience he was about to address ...
Hadi Matar, 26, has been held without bail since the 2022 attack, in which he is accused of stabbing Rushdie more than a dozen times and blinding him in one eye as the acclaimed writer was onstage ...
The attacker, Hadi Matar, was immediately taken into custody. He was charged with attempted murder and assault, pleading not guilty, and was remanded in custody. By 14 August, Rushdie was off the ventilator and able to talk. Rushdie's agent Andrew Wylie reported on 23 October that Rushdie had lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand.
Salman Rushdie. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL ( / sʌlˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi /; [2] born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. [3] His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the ...
The trial of Hadi Matar, the man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie, is scheduled to begin on September 9, according to the prosecutor’s office and Matar’s defense attorney. In August ...
A 24-year-old suspect, Hadi Matar, was arrested at the scene, and was charged the following day with assault and attempted murder. Rushdie was gravely wounded and hospitalized. The government of Iran denied having foreknowledge of the stabbing, although Iranian state-controlled media celebrated it. [citation needed] Social and political fallout