Salman Rushdie’s attacker sentenced to 25 years in prison

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The man convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday.
The attack by Hadi Matar at a literary event in upstate New York left Rushdie critically injured and blind in one eye.
“I became aware of a great quantity of blood I was lying…

This story appeared on semafor.com, 2025-05-16 15:58:37.
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