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Man convicted in terrorism trial over the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie

July 29, 2026

Hadi Matar was convicted Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel “The Satanic Verses.”

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