A man convicted of Salman Rushdie was sentenced to 25 years in prison

The man who was convicted of Salman Rushdie’s appeal was sentenced to a lecture stage in New York in 2022, leaving the excellent author in one eye, on Friday to 25 years in prison.

Hadi Mattar’s jury, 27, was guilty of trying to kill and attack in February.

Rushdie is no longer to the West New York court hall due to the issuance of the attacker’s ruling, but he made a statement of a victim’s impact. During the trial, the 77 -year -old was the main witness, describing how he believed that he was dying when a convincing striker drowned a knife in his head and his body more than ten times as he was presented at the Chutawuka Institute to talk about the writer’s safety.

Before he was sentenced to him, Mattar stood up and indicated a statement about the freedom of expression in which Rushdie described as a hypocrite.

Mattar received the maximum of 25 years to try to kill Rushdie and seven years to injure a man with him on stage. Provincial lawyer Jason Schmidt said the camel should be managed simultaneously because both victims were injured in the same event.

In the maximum prison request, Schmidt Al -Qadi told Matpar “chose this. This attack was designed so that he could have been able to harm the most damage, not only on Mr. Rushdie, but on this society, on 1,400 people there were to see it.”

Public defender Nathaniel Baron indicated that Mattar had a clean criminal record otherwise and it was suspected that people in the public should be considered victims, indicating that the 12 -year prison sentence will be appropriate.

Rushdie spent 17 days at Pennsylvania Hospital and more than three weeks at a rehabilitation center in New York City. author Midnight childrenand The last swamp sighed and Victory City Detailing his recovery in his memoirs 2024, knife.

Next Mattar will face a federal trial on terrorism -related charges. While the first trial mostly focused on the details of the same knife attack, it is expected to last one in the most complex case of the motivation.

The authorities said that Mattar, an American citizen, is trying to implement contracts, or decree, calling for Rushdie’s death when he traveled from his home in Virvio, New Jersey, to target Rushdie in the summer, about 113 km southwest of Bouvalo.

Mattar believed that Al -Fatwa, which was first issued in 1989, was supported by the Armed Community in Lebanon, and he Hezbollah, in 2006, the Secretary -General of the Secretary -General, Hassan Nasrallah, according to federal prosecutors.

The Iranian leader, Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini, released the Fattawa after the publication of Rushdie’s novel Satanic versesWhich some Muslims consider blasphemy. Rushdie spent years in hiding, but after Iran announced that it would not implement the decree that he traveled freely during the past quarter.

Mattar acknowledged that he was not guilty of a triple indictment accusing him of providing terrorist materials, trying to provide material support to Hezbollah and participating in terrorism that exceeds the national borders.

A video of the assault, which was captured by the place cameras and played in the trial, appears to come close to the Rushdie sitting from the back and reach it to challenge its stem with a knife.

While the audience pants and screams, it is seen that Rushdie raises his arms and rises from his seat, walks and stumbles for a few steps with the commentator Matar, swinging and stabbed until they fall and surround the spectators who rush to separate them.

The jury in the first trial of Mattar handed their ruling less than two hours after the deliberations.