MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie declined to testify in his defense ... to provide material support to the militant group Hezbollah.

Hadi Matar, 27, was found guilty of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie around 15 times during a lecture event at the Chautauqua Institution in 2022.

It was the first time since the stabbing that the 77-year-old author came face-to-face with the man accused of trying to kill him.

A man who attacked Sir Salman Rushdie has been found guilty of attempted murder. Hadi Matar stabbed Rushdie over a dozen times as the award-winning author was about to deliver a lecture in upstate New ...

Salman Rushdie says he has 'crazy dreams,' is in therapy after ... murder Rushdie as an act of terrorism and of providing material support to the armed group Hezbollah in Lebanon, which the U.S. has ...

The man accused of attempting to kill author Salman Rushdie was heard saying "Free ... that Matar acted in response to Lebanon-based Hezbollah and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah's endorsement ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — With a mix of humor and graphic detail, Salman Rushdie calmly told a jury ... born in the U.S. to immigrants from Yaroun in Hezbollah-dominated southern Lebanon near the Israeli ...

A jury found 27-year-old Hadi Matar guilty of assault as well, for injuring another man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time.

The man who tried to stab Salman Rushdie ... Rushdie after watching a 2006 speech from a Hezbollah leader endorsing the fatwa calling for Rushdie's death. More from Rolling Stone ...

A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple ... N.J., was motivated to attack Rushdie by a 2006 speech in which the leader of the militant ...