A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022. Jurors delivered the verdict after deliberating for less than two hours,

Hadi Matar was convicted of stabbing the author more than a dozen times in 2022 as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

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

Hadi Matar was found guilty on Friday of attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie in an onstage stabbing attack at a New York arts institute in 2022. Matar, 27, can be seen in videos rushing the Chautauqua Institution's stage as Rushdie was being introduced to the audience for a talk about keeping writers safe from harm,

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

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.

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

Salman Rushdie spoke calmly and with occasional dry humor as he testified on Tuesday against the man accused of trying to murder him, the first time the two have been in the same place since the 2022 knife attack on the novelist onstage at a New York arts institute.

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.