Salman Rushdie was speaking at a literary festival in western New York state when Hadi Matar, then 24, stormed the stage and knifed him in a frenzied attack. Matar was found guilty on Friday.

Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded prize-winning novelist Salman Rushdie at an event in New York, has been found guilty of attempted murder. Jurors delivered the verdict on Friday for Matar’s assault on Rushdie on stage at an arts institute’s event in August 2022.

A man was found guilty by a jury of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the author.