Mayville, NY – The man convicted To stab to Salman Rushdie at a New York Conference stage in 2022, leaving the Blind Author in One Eye, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.
A jury found Hadi Mata, 27, guilty of murder and assault attempt in February.
Chautauqua County District Prosecutor Jason Schmidt said he will request the maximum of 25 years in prison for the attack of August 12, 2022 against Rushdie and seven years to hurt a second man who was on stage with the author. The sentences must be executed simultaneously because both victims were injured in the same event, he said.
Rushdie is not expected to return to the Court for the sentence of his assailant, said the prosecutor. During the trial, the 77 -year -old author He was the key witness, describing how he believed he was dying when a masked attacker sank a knife in the head and body more than a dozen times while being introduced into the Chautauqua institution to talk about the writer’s security.
Rushdie spent 17 days at a hospital in Pennsylvania and more than three weeks in a rehabilitation center in New York City. The author of “Midnight’s Children”, “The Moor’s Last Sigh” and “Victory City” detailed their recovery in His memories 2024“Knife.”
Kill later faces a federal trial in charges related to terrorism. Although the first test focused mainly on the details of the knife attack itself, the next one is expected to deepen the most complicated theme of the reason.
The authorities said that killing, an American citizen, was trying to carry out a Fatwa of decades, or edict, asking for Rushdie’s death when he traveled from his home in Fairview, New Jersey, to aim at Rushdie in the summer retreat to about 70 miles (112.6 kilometers) southwest of Buffalo.
Killing believed that Fatwa, first issued in 1989, was backed by the militant group based in Hezbollah Lebanon and backed in a 2006 speech by the general secretary of the group, Hassan Nasrallah, according to federal prosecutors.
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Jomeini issued Fatwa after the publication of Rushdie’s novel, “The satanic verses” that some Muslims consider blasphemous. Rushdie spent years hidden, but after Iran announced that she would not enforce the decree that traveled freely during the last quarter of a century.
Killing declared himself innocent of an accusation of three positions that accused him of providing material to the terrorists, trying to provide material support to Hezbollah and participate in the terrorism that transcends national borders.
Assault video, captured by the place cameras and reproduced in the trial, shows to kill approaching Rushdie sitting From behind and reaching around to stab your torso with a knife. While the audience is panting and shouts, Rushdie is seen raising her arms and getting up from her seat, walking and stumbling for a few steps with killing hanging, balancing and stabbing until both fall and are surrounded by spectators who rush to separate them.
The jurors in the first trial of killing issued their verdict after less than two hours of deliberation.
