The man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a Western New York arts institute in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for an attack that also wounded a second man,

NEW YORK, NY – Hadi Matar, the man who nearly killed acclaimed author Salman Rushdie in a brutal 2022 attack, was sentenced on May 16 to 25 years in prison by a court in Chautauqua County. The sentencing comes nearly three months after the 27-year-old New Jersey resident was convicted of second-degree attempted murder.

Hadi Matar charged on stage and attacked the novelist, partially blinding him, during an event in New York in 2022.