Muslim Groups Cause Rushdie’s Withdrawal As Claremont Commencement Speaker. Photo: Reutersv via ANI. India-West News Desk.

In February, a jury found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie while the ...

The 77-year-old Indian-born British author was stabbed multiple times during an event at the Chautauqua Institution in New ...

A man who attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife in front of a stunned audience in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison.Hadi Matar, 27, ...

Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie canceled his planned speech at a California college after students protested his appearance.

Two recent flare-ups over commencement speeches show how difficult—and necessary—truly defending free expression is.

Why did Salman Rushdie, famed author of “The Satanic Verses” and radical Islam’s most famous heretic, abruptly bow out of ...

Hadi Matar, the defendant, said he believed Mr. Rushdie to be a hypocrite. His attack left the acclaimed author blind in one ...

Lawyers for New Jersey resident Hadi Matar said they planned to appeal the sentence, which was the maximum possible.

Salman Rushdie's attacker, Hadi Matar, receives 25-year sentence for attempted murder. Rushdie was stabbed during a lecture, ...

Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author ...

I read novelist Salman Rushdie’s harrowing account of his near-assassination about a year ago. It’s still etched in my mind. In his memoir “Knife,” Rushdie described in detail how he ...