The striker Salman Rushdie, a 27-year-old American-Libanon man, a Matar snake, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for an attack by 2022 on Rushdia at a cultural event in New York.
Matar, convicted in February for attempting murder and attack, stabbed Salman Rushdie about ten times in his face and neck, and the author left permanently blind in one eye.
“Intensely painful …” says Salman Rushdie
Rushdie, a British-American, told the jurors during the court that Matar had “stabbed and cut” him in a luxury cultural center.
“It was a stab wound in my eye, intensely painful, then I shouted because of the pain,” said AFP Salman Rushdie, who also added that he was left in “Lake Blood”.
An attacker sentenced to 25 years in prison
Matar received a maximum sentence of 25 years for attacking Rushdia and seven years for attacking another participant in the spoken event. The sentences are to run in parallel, AFP reported.
Salman Rushdie Attack
The attack on Salman Rushdie came 35 years after his controversial novel The Satanic Verses, which long made him the aim of the threat of death to depict the prophet Muhammad.
According to the BBC report, the attack also damaged Rushdie’s liver and a paralyzed hand caused by the nerve damage of his arm.
What did Rushdie’s striker claim?
Before Matar was sentenced to 25 years in prison, he stood up and made a statement of freedom of speech and called Salman Rushdie on behalf of the hypocrisy, mentions the report of the Associated Press.
“Salman Rushdie wants to not with other people,” Matar, dressed in prison clothing with a white stripe and wearing handcuffs, said.
“He wants to be a tyrant, he wants to bully other people.
Matar had previously told the media that he had only read two aspects of Rushdie “The Satanic Verses”, but believed that Salman Rushdie “attacked Islam”.
Salman Rushdie was not present in conviction, but submitted a statement to the victim’s impact. During the court proceedings, the 77 -year -old served as the main witness and talked about the terrible moment he was attacked. He described how, just as he was preparing for an interview at the Chautauqua institution on the theme of writer’s security, the masked man rushed on stage and began to stab him repeatedly in the head and torso, AFP reported.
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