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hadi matar, the suspect in the attack on author Salman Rushdie at an event in New York state, has been charged with attempted murder and is being held without bond, the Chautauqua County District Attorney's office said on Saturday. Indian-born author Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and torso on stage at a lecture on Friday.

Lebanese-born Silvana Fardos, of Fairview, New Jersey, described her 24-year-old son hadi matar as "a moody introvert" increasingly fixated with Islam after the visit to see his estranged father. "One time he argued with me asking why I encouraged him to get an education instead of focusing on religion," she told the website of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. Matar was arrested at the scene of the attack on Rushdie, 75, at a literary event in upstate New York on Friday.

hadi matar was found guilty of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie by repeatedly stabbing him on stage following a fatwa over The Satanic Verses. Matar faces up to 25 years in prison with sentencing set for April 23, as the trial highlighted the controversial issue of free speech and religious criticism.

Salman Rushdie is happy with the 25-year jail term for hadi matar. Matar attacked Rushdie at a New York event in 2022. The attack left Rushdie blind in one eye. Rushdie spoke about the sentence in a BBC interview. He also wrote a memoir called "Knife" about the incident. The book includes an imagined talk with Matar.

Author Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator and could likely lose an eye following an on-stage attack on him , his literary agent has said, even as law enforcement authorities identified his assailant as 24-year old hadi matar from New Jersey, believed to be a supporter of fundamentalist forces in Iran which initiated a fatwa on the writer in 1988.

A judge refused to grant bail to hadi matar, the man accused of trying to kill Rushdie as he prepared to give a talk in New York.

The man who stabbed Salman Rushdie on stage at an event in New York said he was "surprised" to learn that the renowned Indian-born author was alive following the attack. hadi matar, 24, said Rushdie, 75, was "someone who attacked Islam" but did not confirm that his actions were driven by a fatwa issued by Iran in the 1980s, reports dpa news agency.

hadi matar, the 26-year-old accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie in 2022, has declined a plea deal on Tuesday that would have lowered his state prison sentence but could lead to a federal terrorism-related charge, according to his attorney, Nathaniel Barone. Matar remains in custody without bail following the attack that took place as Rushdie was preparing to speak at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York. Rushdie suffered significant injuries, including blindness in one eye and over a dozen stab wounds.

Salman Rushdie was critically injured and left permanently blind in one eye after being stabbed multiple times by hadi matar at a cultural event. Matar, who shouted 'free Palestine' in court, faces attempted murder and assault charges. The trial, highlighting the chaos and danger of the attack, continues to unfold in New York.

The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie said he respected Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini but would not say if he was inspired by a fatwa issued by the former Iranian leader, according to a New York Post interview published on Wednesday.

hadi matar received a 25-year prison sentence for the 2022 on-stage stabbing of Salman Rushdie at a lecture in New York. The attack, which left Rushdie blind in one eye and severely injured, stemmed from the decades-old fatwa. Matar, who criticized Rushdie before sentencing, faces a federal trial on terrorism charges related to the incident.

The trial for hadi matar, the man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie, has been scheduled for January 2024. The trial is expected to last for about two weeks, and Rushdie is planned to testify. Rushdie was stabbed multiple times during a lecture, resulting in injuries to his neck, stomach, eye, and chest. He suffered long-term effects, including blindness in one eye. Matar pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault and has maintained his innocence.

After stabbing, Rushdie was flown to UPMC Hamot Surgery Center in Erie, Pennsylvania and underwent surgery. Andrew Wylie, Rushdie's agent, said the writer was on a ventilator with a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm and an eye he was likely to lose.

hadi matar, convicted of the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, faces sentencing on Friday, with prosecutors seeking the maximum of 25 years. Rushdie, who was blinded in one eye during the attack at a New York lecture, will not attend the sentencing. Matar also faces a federal trial on terrorism-related charges, exploring his motive linked to a decades-old fatwa.

Days after Rushdie was brutally stabbed, his attacker said he was "surprised" the author had survived the attack.

The criminal case against the man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie involves so much potential evidence that prosecutors need more time to review it, the chief prosecutor said on September 7, 2022.

"The secretary-general was appalled to learn of the attack on renowned novelist Salman Rushdie," a statement issued on Friday by his spokesperson said. "In no case is violence a response to words spoken or written by others in their exercise of the freedoms of opinion and expression," Guterres said.

Salman Rushdie is still in critical condition, but his usual "feisty and defiant" sense of humour remains intact, and the “cowardly attack” on the Mumbai-born author from a man with a knife cannot silence a man with a pen, his son and the New York State Governor have said. Rushdie, 75, was taken off a ventilator on Saturday and could talk after he was stabbed on stage at a literary event in New York state on Friday.

"The Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk on Saturday, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York. Rushdie remained hospitalised with serious injuries, but fellow author Aatish Taseer tweeted in the evening that he was "off the ventilator and talking (and joking)."

Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed author who was hospitalized on Friday with serious injuries after being repeatedly stabbed at a public appearance in New York state, is off a ventilator and his condition is improving, his agent said on Sunday."He's off the ventilator, so the road to recovery has begun," his agent, Andrew Wylie, wrote in an email to Reuters. "It will be long; the injuries are severe, but his condition is headed in the right direction."

Roughly two days since the attack, author Salman Rushdie's family has issued an official statement giving his health update. Here's what his son Zafar Rushdie said.

The muted reaction to the attack worldwide has prompted a debate on the creeping illiberalism, even in countries which once regarded free speech as one of the pillars of a liberal, democratic and civilised society

An Iranian foundation has praised a man accused of severely injuring novelist Salman Rushdie in an attack last year and promised him 1,000 sq metres of agricultural land, state TV reported on Tuesday on its Telegram channel.Rushdie, 75, lost an eye and the use of one hand following the assault on the stage of a literary event held near Lake Erie in western New York state in August.

The attack on Salman Rushdie, given assailant hadi matar’s purported Iranian sympathies, immediately took on geopolitical colours, coming as it did just days after the Biden administration’s justice department charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of trying to orchestrate the assassination of former national security adviser John Bolton.