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.

A jury has found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder and assault in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution in August 2022.

An American-Lebanese man was found guilty by a jury Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the "Satanic Verses" author, a court official said.