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The man convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday.
The attack by Hadi Matar at a literary event in upstate New York left Rushdie critically injured and blind in one eye.
“I became aware of a great quantity of blood I was lying in... and it occurred to me quite clearly I was dying,” Rushie told the court in February.
Authorities said Matar was attempting to carry out a decades-old edict — first issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and endorsed by a Hezbollah leader — to kill Rushdie for his novel, The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims consider blasphemous.
Matar faces another trial on terrorism-related charges, which Semafor first reported the Department of Justice was preparing.
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