Salman Rushdie Attacker found guilty of trying to kill and attack

A New Jersey man stabbed the famous British-Indian Author Sir Salman Rushdie several times a period of killing New York.

Hadi Matar, 27, now faced a penalty of over 30 years in prison.

Attacks on August 2022 on the left Sir Salman with serious injury including injury to his liver, loss of insight into an eye and a paralyzed hand caused by damage to his arm.

The jury’s guilty judge on Friday comes after two weeks of Chautauqua County Court test in Western New York State, near the attack site.

The jury also found Matar guilty of attacking the interviewer, Henry Reese, who was on the stage with the author. Mr Reese suffered a minor head injury during the attack.

Matar’s judgment date is scheduled by April 23.

Sir Salman, 77, confirming that he was on the stage of the historic institution in Chautauqua when he saw a man hurry up.

Remember the incident, he said he was beaten by the eyes of the murderer, “darkness and seemingly cruel”.

At first he thought he was punched, before he was stabbed – 15 times a total – with wounds in his eyes, cheek, chest, torso and thighs and thighs and thighs and thighs, Torso and thighs and thighs and thighs and thighs and thighs and thighs.

The attack took place over 35 years after Sir Salman’s novel, the verses of Satan, first published.

The novel, inspired by the Life of the Prophet Muhammad Muhammad, aroused Muslims, who considered the contents of this blasphemy. The book is forbidden in some countries after it has been published in 1988.

Sir Salman faced countless threats to death and forced to hide in nine years after the religious leader in Iran issued a fatwa – or command – calling for the book.

But in recent years, the writer said he believed that threats against him were reduced.

During the end of the test arguments Friday, prosecuting lawyer Jason Schmidt played a video of gradual attack attacks,

“I want you to look at the target attitude of the attack,” says Mr. Schmidt in court, according to news outlet. “There are many people on that day but only a person who is tumbled,” he said the jury.

Within two weeks try, Defense lawyer Andrew Brautigan argues that prosecutors failed to distract Matar intended to kill Sir Salman. Matar pleads not guilty.

His lawyers refused to call any witnesses to themselves and Matar who did not testify of his defense.

In an interview with New York Post from jail in 2022, Matar was praised by the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini, for calling Sir Salman’s killing.

“I don’t think he is a very good person,” says Matar about the writer. “He was a man who attacked Islam.”

He added that he was just reading some pages in Satan’s verses.

Matar, was born in the New Jersey Fairview of parents who had migrated from Lebanon, also accused of a distinctive federal support of the mental support of Lebanon Hezbollah, according to an unidentified in July.

Hezbollah was appointed a terrorist organization in western states, Israel, Gulf Arabsors and the Arab League.