Hadi Matar, 27, was found guilty of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie around 15 times during a lecture event at the Chautauqua Institution in 2022.

The man, Hadi Matar, faces up to 32 years in prison. Prosecutors said he rushed onstage at an arts conference and stabbed the famed author about 15 times.

Hadi Matar, the man who attacked Salman Rushdie in 2022, was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder and assault.

Hadi Matar had pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault in connection with the 2022 attack at the Chautauqua Institution in southwestern New York.

A jury on Friday convicted a New Jersey man of second-degree attempted murder and assault in the brutal stabbing of author Salman Rushdie on an upstate New York lecture stage in 2022.

The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has declined to testify in his defense.

Henry Reese — the founder of the City Of Asylum Pittsburgh — testified about how he was on stage speaking with Rushdie and was also injured in the melee. Matar was charged with assault for allegedly slashing Reese in the forehead, leaving him with a gash.

A New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage has been convicted of attempted murder.

Hadi Matar received a guilty verdict on two charges stemming from a violent incident in which he'd stabbed Rushdie multiple times during an appearance.

A man has been convicted of attempted murder for the 2022 on-stage attack on author Salman Rushdie, which left the novelist blind in one eye.

Matar was also convicted of assault for injuring Ralph Henry Reese, co-founder of a program that provides refuge for writers, who was on stage to moderate the event. Matar is set to be sentenced on April 23 and faces up to 32 years in prison, in addition to federal terrorism-related charges.