NY Jury Hears Attacker Repeatedly Stabbed Salman Rushdie

Rushdie lived in seclusion in London for the first decade after the fatwa was issued, but for the past 20 years -- until the attack -- he lived a relatively normal life in New York (Credit: AFP)

Prosecutors in the trial of the man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie described to jurors Monday how the "Satanic Verses" author was stabbed repeatedly in a frenzied assault that left him blind in one eye.

Hadi Matar, a 27-year-old Lebanese-American who said "free Palestine" as he was led into court, is charged with attempted murder and assault over the August 12, 2022 attack at an arts event in the west of New York state.