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Hadi Matar: Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie – the author blindly in one eye – is detained | US messages

A man who was convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie and blindly let the author blind have been detained for 25 years.

Hadi Matar was found guilty From attempted murder and attack in February.

In August 2022, the public prosecutor’s highest penalty of 25 years for the attack and another seven -year period for violating a second man.

Hadi Matar, on the right, who is charged with a knife attack in 2022 because of seriously injured author Salman Rush, will be led to County Court Chattauqua on Monday, February 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
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Hadi Matar. Image: AP

During the experiment, Sir Salman revealed that he feared that he died when the masked attacker fell into his head and body more than a dozen times.

The attack occurred when the 77-year-old was presented on stage at the Chautauqua Institute in New York on the discussion about the security of the writer.

Sir Salman Was stabbed in the head, neck, the upper body and the left hand and suffered his liver and intestine.

The author of the midnight of the children spent 17 days in a hospital in Pennsylvania and more than three weeks in a rehabilitation facility in New York City. When he recovered from his injuries.

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From 2024: Salman Rushdie remembers stabbing

Matar will next be charged with court proceedings for terrorism. The prosecutors claim that the 27-year-old tried to carry them out A decades old Fatwa demand the death of the author.

In 1989, the then head of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, published Fatwa in response to the publication of Sir Salman’s Roman The Satanic Verse, which some Muslims regarded as blasphemy, and prompted the British-Indian author to hide.

In 1998 Iran announced not to enforce the decree, so that Sir Salman would travel freely in the last quarter of a century.

Matar was not guilty of making terrorists available, trying to support Hisbollah materially and to involve terrorism that exceed the national borders.

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