huuugebet Salman Rushdie Attacker Found Guilty Of Attempted Murder | Details

A New Jersey man was found guilty of attempted murder on Friday for stabbing Indian-British novelist Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022, the Associated Press confirmed.

Hadi Matar, a 27-year-old American-Lebanese man, faces up to 25 years in prison for attempted murder and assault.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on April 23, according to a court official who confirmed his conviction. 

Rushdie was the key witness during seven days of testimony, describing in graphic detail his life-threatening injuries and long and painful recovery.

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Matar, sitting at the defence table, looked down but had no obvious reaction when the jury delivered the verdict. As he was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs, he quietly uttered, "Free Palestine," echoing comments he has frequently made while entering and leaving the trial.

His public defender, Nathaniel Barone, said Matar was disappointed but also well-prepared for the verdict.

District Attorney Jason Schmidt played a slow-motion video of the attack for the jury Friday during his closing argument, pointing out the assailant as he emerged from the audience, walked up a staircase to the stage and broke into a run toward Rushdie.

 "I want you to look at the unprovoked nature of this attack. I want you to look at the targeted nature of the attack. There were a lot of people around that day, but there was only one person who was targeted," Schmidt said, as quoted by Associated Press.

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Assistant public defender Andrew Brautigan told the jury that prosecutors have not proved that Matar intended to kill Rushdie. The distinction is important for an attempted-murder conviction.         

"You will agree something bad happened to Rushdie, but you don't know what Matar's conscious objective was. The testimony you have heard doesn't establish anything more than a chaotic noisy outburst that occurred that injuredRushdie," Brautigan said.

Matar had with him knives, not a gun or bomb, his attorneys have said previously. And in response to testimony that the injuries were life-threatening, they have noted that Rushdie's heart and lungs were uninjured.

Schmidt said while it's not possible to read Matar's mind, “it's foreseeable that if you're going to stab someone 10 or 15 times about the face and neck,rich88 it's going to result in a fatality."

Schmidt reminded jurors about the testimony of a trauma surgeon, who said Rushdie's injuries would have been fatal without quick treatment.

He also slowed down video showing Matar approaching the seated Rushdie from behind and reaching around him to stab at his torso with a knife. Rushdie raises his arms and rises from his seat, walking and stumbling for a few steps with Matar hanging on, swinging and stabbing until they both fall and are surrounded by onlookers who rush in to separate them.

The recordings also picked up the gasps and screams from audience members who had been seated to hear Rushdie speak with City of Asylum Pittsburgh founder Henry Reese about keeping writers safe. Reese suffered a gash to his forehead, leading to the assault charge against Matar.

Case Background

On August 12, 2022, Rushdie was scheduled to speak at the Chautauqua Institution when Matar, dressed in dark clothing and a face mask, stormed the stage and repeatedly stabbed him. Initially mistaking the attack for punches, Rushdie soon realised he was bleeding profusely.

This is why in Muzaffarnagar last year, a court convicted a man for murdering a rival in kabootarbaazi, or pigeon racing. Last checked, it was not an Olympic sport.

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The author of “Midnight’s Children” and “Victory City” sustained severe injuries, including three stab wounds to his neckhuuugebet, four to his stomach, puncture wounds to his right eye and chest, and a deep cut on his thigh. He lost vision in one eye and suffered nerve damage in an arm, as well as liver damage. Reese, the co-founder of a program that supports persecuted writers, was also injured.