Salman Rushdie told a federal jury how Hadi Matar stabbed him on stage in 2022. The testimony sharpens the prosecution's bid to prove the attack was an act of terrorism.

Rushdie was blinded in his right eye and his left hand was damaged in the attack.

Salman Rushdie has testified for the second time about being stabbed nearly to death four years ago in a western New York amphitheater.

man who was convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie went on trial again Wednesday, July 22, this time in a federal case.

The man convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie spent years researching the writer's whereabouts before stabbing him on a lecture stage, federal prosecutors said Wednesday at the opening of his federal terrorism trial.

Hadi Matar has gone on federal trial in the US over the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie. Prosecutors say the case will test whether the attack was terrorism tied to a decades-old fatwa.

The man who was convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie went on trial again Wednesday, this time in a federal case that casts the stabbing on a lecture stage as an act of terrorism.

Hadi Matar will face a federal terrorism trial in Buffalo over the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie. The case is expected to probe the alleged ideological motive behind an attack that revived the long shadow of the fatwa.

The man who was convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie is going on trial again.