Hadi Matar ran onto the stage at the Chautauqua Institution in New York where Rushdie was about to speak at a lecture on 12 August, 2022, and stabbed him 15 times, as horrified audience members looked on.
He also suffered wounds to his eye, cheek, back, chest, torso, thigh and liver, as well as being left with a paralysed hand due to nerve damage to his arm.
Matar could receive up to 25 years in prison, which District Attorney Jason Schmidt noted is the maximum for a conviction on attempted murder in the second degree
Matar, looked down but had no obvious reaction when the jury delivered the verdict.
Rushdie was left blind in one eye after the attack (Photo: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
Matar’s lawyer Nathaniel Barone said he was disappointed with verdict but was well prepared for it.
He said: “We had a number of different angles to show the jurors. It really is as compelling as it can possibly get.
Rushdie began his writing career in the early 70s before penning Midnight’s Children, about the birth of India, which won the Booker Prize in 1981.
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Read MoreIn 1989, Iran’s then leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie to be killed over the book. For many years afterwards the author remained in hiding in London under a British government protection programme.
However, Index on Censorship, an organisation that promotes free expression, pointed out the fatwa still stands and that money was raised to boost the reward for killing Rushdie as recently as 2016.
Additional reporting by AP.
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