Hadi Matar has pleaded not guilty to attacking the British author with a knife while he was on stage at a festival in 2022

Prosecutors are to lay out their framework of their case against Hadi Matar, the man accused of attacking author Salman Rushdie, on Monday in a case that has attracted the world’s media to the small town of Mayville in western New York state.

Matar, a 27-year-old Lebanese-American, is facing charges of attempted murder and assault in the stabbing attack on the author on stage at an arts festival in August 2022. The 77-year-old Rushdie was grievously injured in the attack and lost sight in one eye.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/10/prosecutors-to-lay-out-attempted-case-against-man-accused-of-salman-rushdie-attack