Man Who Stabbed Author Salman Rushdie Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

A man convicted of stabbing award-winning British author Salman Rushdie successful 2022 was sentenced connected Friday to 25 years successful prison, nan maximum imaginable term.

Hadi Matar, 27, was recovered blameworthy successful February of attempted execution and assault successful relationship to nan weapon onslaught that near Rushdie unsighted successful 1 eye. 

Rusdie, 77, was stabbed connected shape astatine nan Chautauqua Institution earlier a speech and airlifted to a infirmary successful northwestern Pennsylvania — wherever he remained for astir 3 weeks.

The author, whose 1988 caller "The Satanic Verses" evoked worldwide protests and Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khamenei to telephone for his death, suffered wounds to his liver, limb and eye.

Matar was besides sentenced to 7 years, to beryllium served concurrently, for nan stabbing of different man who was connected shape pinch Rushdie, according to The Associated Press.

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Split of Hadi Matar and Salman Rushdie

Before sentencing, Matar told nan tribunal Rushdie "wants to disrespect different people," according to nan AP.

"He wants to beryllium a bully, he wants to bully different people," Matar said. "I don’t work together pinch that."

The New Jersey autochthonal is still facing national terrorism charges, to which he pleaded not guilty.

Hadi Matar, nan man accused successful nan attempted execution of British writer Salman Rushdie, appears successful tribunal for a procedural proceeding astatine Chautauqua County Courthouse successful Mayville, New York connected August 18, 2022.  (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

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Though nan Iranian authorities committed to not encouraging anyone to return Rushdie’s life, location was a $4 cardinal bounty connected his head, Reuters reported.

Rushdie described nan 27-second onslaught arsenic thing that dragged him backmost successful time.

"I saw nan man successful achromatic moving towards me, down nan right-hand broadside of nan seating area: Black clothes, achromatic look disguise – he was coming successful difficult and low, a squat missile," Rushdie told "60 Minutes" big Anderson Cooper successful April 2024. "I confess, I had sometimes imagined my assassin rising up successful immoderate nationalist forum aliases different and coming for maine successful this way."

Salman Rushdie's attacker's proceedings was delayed by nan author's publication of a book astir nan incident. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

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"My first thought erstwhile I saw this murderous style rushing towards maine was: So, it’s you. Here you are," Rushdie said. "It felt for illustration thing coming retired of nan distant past and trying to resistance maine backmost successful clip … backmost into that distant past successful bid to termination me." 

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.