Man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie faces sentencing in New York...

Man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie faces sentencing in New York

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Hadi Matar, convicted of the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, faces sentencing on Friday, with prosecutors seeking the maximum of 25 years. Rushdie, who was blinded in one eye during the attack at a New York lecture, will not attend the sentencing. Matar also faces a federal trial on terrorism-related charges, exploring his motive linked to a decades-old fatwa.

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