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Hadi Matar convicted in terrorism trial over Salman Rushdie stabbing

South China Morning Post 29 July 2026 49m ago
Hadi Matar convicted in terrorism trial over Salman Rushdie stabbing
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A man was convicted on Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel The Satanic Verses. A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism. A message seeking comment was sent to Matar’s lawyers. Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-y
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