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.