The district attorney said jurors tasked with determining the fate of attacker Hadi Matar do not need to understand his ...

Jurors picked for the trial of a man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack likely won’t hear about the ...

Jurors for the trial regarding the attack on Salman Rushdie will undergo questioning to uncover any bias, while the prosecutor emphasizes the motive of a fatwa won't be the trial's focus. Concerns ...

Hadi Matar, the man charged in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie two years ago, rejected a plea deal that would have shortened his sentence in a state prison on Tuesday. Matar's lawyer, Nathaniel ...

On Friday, Hadi Matar was back in Chautauqua County Court. District Attorney Jason Schmidt had previously requested a protection order be in place for witnesses in the trial for Matar. That order ...

Hadi Matar is believed to be a devout Shitte Muslim whose decision to stab the writer in an attempt to kill him was motivated by the 1989 fatwa (Islamic religious decree) issued by the former ...

Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of wounding Rushdie, 75, on Friday just before the "The Satanic Verses" author was to deliver a lecture on stage at an educational retreat near Lake Erie. On Friday ...

A New Jersey man, Hadi Matar, is awaiting trial. Other semi-finalists for the nonfiction prize include Australia’s Richard Flanagan and U.S. writers Gary J. Bass and Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Police arrested Hadi Matar, 24, in connection with the attack on Friday. Matar, of New Jersey, had previously posted on social media in support of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and Shia extremism ...

By Laura Collins-Hughes Hadi Matar, de 24 años, era muy reservado. Un viaje a Oriente Medio en 2018 lo cambió. By Chelsia Rose Marcius, Tracey Tully and Ana Facio-Krajcer Hadi Matar ...

A New Jersey man, Hadi Matar, is awaiting trial for the stabbing. Prize judges called the book “brutally clear, honest and, best of all, funny.” Rushdie won the Booker Prize for fiction in ...