A New Jersey man who has repeatedly killed the famous British Indian author Sir Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in New York for attempted murder and attack.
Hadi Matar, 27, is now facing fined more than 30 years in prison.
The attack in August 2022 was left by Salman’s cheese with severe injuries, including liver damage, vision loss in one eye and a paralyzed hand caused by nerve damage on the arm.
The jury verdict on Friday was followed by a two -week trial in Chautauqua County Court in Western New York, near the location of the attack.
The jury also proclaimed Matar guilty of attacking the injuries of the interviewer Henry Reese, who was on stage with the author. Mr. Reese sustained a minor head injury during the attack.
The date of the Matar sentence is scheduled for April 23.
Sir Salman, 77, testified that he was on stage at the Chautauqua Historical Institute when he saw a man rushing toward him.
Remembering the incident, he said he was hit by the eyes of the eyes, “which were dark and seemed very frantic.”
At first, he thought they had pierced him, before he realized that he had been stabbed – a total of 15 times – wounds in the eyes, cheek, neck, chest, torso and thighs.
The attack happened more than 35 years after the novel Sir Salman, Satanic lyrics, was first published.
The novel, inspired by the life of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, caused anger among some Muslims, who considered their content blasphemous. The book is banned in some countries after it was published in 1988.
Sir Salman faced countless threats of death and was forced to hide nine years after Iran’s religious leader issued a Fatwa – or a decree – calling for the author’s death for the book.
But in recent years, the author said he believed that threats against him had decreased.
ReutersDuring the final arguments of the trial on Friday, the persecution of lawyer Jason Schmidt reproduced the video in a slow motion of the attack, according to Associate Press.
“I want you to look at the targeted nature of attacks,” said Mr. Schmidt in court, according to the news. “There were a lot of people that day, but there was only one person who was targeted,” the jury said.
During the two -week trial, defense lawyer Andrew Brautigan claimed that prosecutors failed to prove that Matar intended to kill Sir Salman. Matar declared that he was not guilty.
His lawyers refused to call their witnesses, and Matar did not testify in his defense.
In an interview with the New York Post from prison in 2022, Matar praised the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, for the call for execution of cheese Salman.
“I don’t think it’s a good person,” Mr. Matar said of the author. “He is someone who attacked Islam.”
He added that he only read a few pages of Satanic verses.
Matar, born in Fairview, New Jersey to his parents who emigrated from Lebanon, has also been charged with a separate federal case of material support for a militant group based in Lebanon Hezbollah, the indictment is dismissed in July.
Hezbollah was proclaimed a terrorist organization of Western states, Israel, bay of Arab countries and the Arab league.