Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded the novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a New York arts institute in 2022, is scheduled for sentencing on Wednesday, four months after he was found guilty of attempted murder in the second degree.
He could receive up to 25 years in prison.
The Chautauqua county court sentencing hearing will take place three miles from where Matar attacked Rushdie during an address at a literary festival on the theme of “home” and keeping writers safe from harm.
In one of the few comments Matar made after he was arrested following the attack at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, the 27-year...
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