The novelist Salman Rushdie promotes the edition in the German language of his book Knife: Meditations after an attempted murder In Berlin on May 16, 2024. In the book, Rushdie faces the 2022 attack which left him blind with an eye.
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Hadi Matar, the man who seriously injured the novelist Salman Rushdie during a stab wound attack in 2022, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday – the maximum attempted murder, according to the Associated Press.
Matar, 27, was sentenced in February for attacking the author to the unfortunate non -goal institution in New York State in August 2022. A Matar brandishing a knife jumped on the stage where Rushdie was about to give a conference, stabbing the author several times in the face, the neck, the arm, the abdomen and the eye.
The assault left Rushdie, now 77 years old, partially blind and with permanent nervous lesions.
Matar was found guilty of attempted murder in the second degree. He was also found guilty of second degree assault for injuring the moderator who tried to stop the attack. His sentence includes an additional 7 years for this attack, but both must be purged simultaneously, said the AP.
In the Matar trial in February, prosecutors argued that the attack on Rushdie was deliberate and targeted and that the novelist was lucky to escape from his life. The jury deliberated less than two hours before returning a verdict, according to the news agency.
Rushdie Book Satanic verses, Published in 1988, sparked angry demonstrations in the Muslim world of its controversial representation of the life of the Prophet Muhammad. Months before his death in 1989, the Iranian supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, published a religious fatwa calling for the murder of Rushdie.
At the trial, the American lawyer’s office for the western New York district alleged that Matar was acting on the Fatwa. Matar, who lived in Fairview, NJ, at the time of the attack, did not quote the religious decree as motivation, but said that he did not like Rushdie, saying to New York Post In an interview in prison, the author had attacked Islam.
Rushdie himself said during the February trial, telling the jury that the aggressor had hit him several times. The novelist described being taken by surprise in the attack, then suddenly became aware of “a very large amount of blood flowing on my clothes”.
Matar’s defense team argued that this was not an open and closed case. “Something very bad has happened,” said lawyer Lynn Schaffer during the trial, adding that the accusation was necessary “to prove much more than that”.
Matar also faces accusations of federal terrorism
Matar faces a separate trial on the federal accusations of terrorism as part of the attack on Rushdie. When the accusations were filed last July, the director of the FBI era, Christopher Wray, said that Matar “had tried to make a fatwa approved by (Hezbollah) who called for the death of Salman Rushdie – a fatwa published in 1989 by Ayatollah of Iran.” If he is found guilty of the federal accusations – which include the provision of material support to terrorists and the conspiracy to kill an American citizen – Matar risks for life. A trial date has not been set.
Rushdie awarded, who is a British-American citizen of Indian origin, wrote many books. In addition Satanic versesHe is also the author of Midnight childrenplaced in postcolonial India, and Knife: Meditations after an attempted murderA thesis on the attack that was published last year.
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