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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang and agencies

Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie in 2022 convicted of federal terrorism charges

A courtroom sketch of Salman Rushdie testifying in federal court on 23 July 2026.
A courtroom sketch of Salman Rushdie testifying in federal court on 23 July. Photograph: Alexandra Newbould/AP

A man was convicted on 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.

A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.

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