Hadi Matar has been convicted on federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie. According to the case summary, a jury found Matar guilty on all counts, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism in connection with the attack during a lecture appearance.
The verdict marks a major development in a case that drew international attention because Rushdie has lived for decades under a death threat linked to his novel The Satanic Verses. Prosecutors argued that the stabbing was not only a violent assault on a well-known writer, but also an act that fit federal terrorism charges.
The Salman Rushdie stabbing case has remained highly visible because of the author’s long history of threats tied to his work. The federal conviction underscores how authorities framed the attack as part of a broader ideological context rather than as an isolated act of violence.
With the jury finding Hadi Matar guilty of all charges, the case now moves beyond the trial phase with a clear federal verdict in one of the most closely watched attacks involving a literary figure in recent years.
