The man was sentenced to stab Salman Rushdie on the 2022 New York speech stage, turning a blind eye to the award writer, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February.
Rather than returning to the court in western New York for the sentencing of his attackers, Rushdie filed a victim impact statement. During the trial, the 77-year-old writer was the main witness, describing how he thought he was dying when a masked attacker hit his knife in the head and body more than twelve times as he was introduced at the Giottoqua agency to talk about the writer's safety.
Before being sentenced, Matar stood up and made a statement about freedom of speech, calling Rushdie a hypocrite.
Matar was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison for the murder of Rushdie and was injured for seven years in the man he came to power. District Attorney Jason Schmidt said the verdict must be made at the same time because the two victims were injured in the same incident.
Schmidt told the judge when demanding the maximum sentence that Matal “chooses that. He designed the attack so that he could do the most damage to 1,400 people watching there, not just Mr Rushdie, but to the community.”
Public defender Nathaniel Barone pointed out that Matar had a clean criminal record and presented the criminal record of people in the audience, which showed that the sentence was appropriate for 12 years.
Rushdie spent 17 days at a Pennsylvania hospital and more than three weeks at a rehabilitation center in New York City. author Midnight kids,,,,, Moore's last sigh and Victory City Detailed introduction to his recovery in his 2024 memoir knife.
Next, Matal faces a federal trial on allegations related to terrorism. While the first trial focuses on the details of the knife attack itself, the next trial is expected to delve into more complex motivational issues.
U.S. citizen Matar, who attempted to conduct a decades-old Fatwa or dean, called on Rushdie to die while traveling from his home in Fairview, New Jersey, targeted Rushdie at a summer retreat about 113 kilometers southwest of Buffalo.
According to federal prosecutors, Matar believes that Fatwa was first released in 1989 and was supported by Hezbollah, a radical group in Lebanon, and was recognized in a 2006 speech by the group's secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah.
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini published the publication of Rushdie's novel Satanic Scripturesome Muslims believe that blasphemy. Rushdie hid for several years, but after Iran announced that it would not be able to enforce his decree to travel freely for the past quarter of a century.
Matar pleaded not guilty indictment, accusing him of providing materials to terrorists, trying to provide material support to Hezbollah and engaging in terrorism beyond national borders.
The video of the attack was filmed by the site's camera and played during trial, showing Matar approaching Rushdie, who was sitting from behind, reaching out to stab his torso with a knife.
As the audience gasped and screamed, Rushdie saw his arms raised, headed from his seat, tripping a few steps, the motor (Matar) hung, swaying and stabbing until both of them fell and were surrounded by onlookers beside them, they rushed in and separated.
Less than two hours after deliberation, jurors at Matar's first trial made a judgment.
