{"id":51509,"date":"2026-07-29T21:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=51509"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:20:03","slug":"man-who-stabbed-salman-rushdie-in-2022-convicted-of-federal-terrorism-charges-salman-rushdie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=51509","title":{"rendered":"Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie in 2022 convicted of federal terrorism charges | Salman Rushdie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack on an amphitheater stage. The federal conviction carries a potential life sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Rushdie, who was about to speak on writers\u2019 safety, was slashed 15 times in front of a stunned audience. He was gravely wounded and lost the sight in his right eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Matar, 28, is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[5313,4498,319,1541,25089,18461,10995,9924],"class_list":{"0":"post-51509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-charges","9":"tag-convicted","10":"tag-federal","11":"tag-man","12":"tag-rushdie","13":"tag-salman","14":"tag-stabbed","15":"tag-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}