
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 preparing to speak on writer safety. Matar, then 24, stormed the…