Buffalo: A man was convicted on Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel 'The Satanic Verses'.
The federal conviction carries a potential life sentence.
A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.
Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack on an amphitheater stage.
Rushdie, who was about to speak on writers' safety, was slashed 15 times in front of a stunned audience. He was gravely wounded and lost the sight in his right eye.
