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Hadi Matar gets max sentence for stabbing and attempting to kill Salman Rushdie
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May 16, 2025
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5:05Now PlayingThe crazed fanatic who tried to stab Salman Rushdie to death on a New York lecture stage was sentenced Friday to the maximum term of 25 years in prison. Hadi Matar, 26, was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February over the horrific attack that saw him try to carry out a decades-old fatwa by ambushing the 77-year-old novelist as he was giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institute in August 2022. Before sentencing, the knifeman — who repeatedly shouted pro-Palestinian slogans during his trial — stood and made a statement about freedom of speech in which he called Rushdie a hypocrite.
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