Salman Rushdie testifies at knife attacker's US trial on terrorism charges
Novelist Salman Rushdie attends the premiere of the documentary film "Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie" during the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. CHRIS PIZZELLO / AP PHOTO/CHRIS PIZZELLO Novelist Salman Rushdie testified on Thursday, July 23, at the federal trial of the man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural center in 2022. Hadi Matar, a 28-year-old Lebanese-American, was sentenced last year to 25 years in prison by New York state's justice system for the attempted murder, which left Rushdie blind in one eye.
- ▪Novelist Salman Rushdie attends the premiere of the documentary film "Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie" during the Sundance Film Festival on Jan.
- ▪CHRIS PIZZELLO / AP PHOTO/CHRIS PIZZELLO Novelist Salman Rushdie testified on Thursday, July 23, at the federal trial of the man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural center in 2022.
- ▪Hadi Matar, a 28-year-old Lebanese-American, was sentenced last year to 25 years in prison by New York state's justice system for the attempted murder, which left Rushdie blind in one eye.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 4 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Salman Rushdie testifies at knife attacker's US terror trial — Japan Today
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Novelist Salman Rushdie attends the premiere of the documentary film "Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie" during the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 25, 2026, in Park City, Utah. CHRIS PIZZELLO / AP PHOTO/CHRIS PIZZELLO Novelist Salman Rushdie testified on Thursday, July 23, at the federal trial of the man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural center in 2022. Hadi Matar, a 28-year-old Lebanese-American, was sentenced last year to 25 years in prison by New York state's justice system for the attempted murder, which left Rushdie blind in one eye. He is now standing trial on terrorism charges before a federal court in Buffalo, in northwestern New York.
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