Salman Rushdie attacker found guilty
The man who attacked author Salman Rushdie while he was on stage at a 2022 lecture in New York was found guilty of attempted murder charges. Legal analyst and trial attorney Robin Nunn joins CBS News with more.
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The man who attacked author Salman Rushdie while he was on stage at a 2022 lecture in New York was found guilty of attempted murder charges. Legal analyst and trial attorney Robin Nunn joins CBS News with more.
Salman Rushdie took the witness stand Tuesday in the attempted murder trial against his accused attacker, Hadi Matar.
The criminal trial of the man accused of attempting to murder author Salman Rushdie began with prosecutors saying Hadi Matar was on a mission when he rushed to attack Rushdie, stabbing him multiple times in 2022. Nikki Battiste reports on the first day of the trial and the national security concerns behind the attack.
The trial of the man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie is underway. The 77-year-old author was stabbed more than a dozen times back in August 2022 while speaking in front of a live audience. CBS News correspondent Michael George has more.
Salman Rushdie has come to terms with the attempt on his life the only way he knows: by writing about it in his new book. He details the experience in his first television interview since the attack.
The man charged in connection with a knife attack that wounded author Salman Rushdie now faces an additional federal charge.
Facing widespread unhappiness over its response to the Israel-Hamas war, the writers' group PEN America has called off its annual awards ceremony.
Award-winning author Salman Rushdie describes his new memoir as a "reckoning." In 2022, he was stabbed in the neck and abdomen more than a dozen times in western New York and lost sight in his right eye. In Rushdie's new memoir, "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," he writes about the attack. He and his wife, poet and author Rachel Eliza Griffiths, join "CBS Mornings" for their first joint live interview.
Salman Rushdie has come to terms with the attempt on his life the only way he knows: by writing about it in his new book. He details the experience in his first television interview since the attack.
Salman Rushdie faced assassination attempts for years and, in 2022, a knife-wielding attacker nearly killed him. He tells the story in his newest book, "Knife," out Tuesday.
Author Salman Rushdie spent 18 days in the hospital and three weeks in rehab after he was attacked by a knife-wielding man in 2022. He shares what a surgeon told him about his survival.
In 1990, Mike Wallace spoke with "The Satanic Verses" author, who was marked for death by the Ayatollah Khomeini. The Ayatollah in 1989 declared Rushdie's novel an affront to Islam.
In his first television interview since he was attacked at a literary festival in Chautauqua, New York almost two years ago, author Salman Rushdie details his experience to Anderson Cooper. Sunday on 60 Minutes.
Word that he'd won was suppressed for his safety until he walked on stage to get it. Rushdie was stabbed repeatedly in August of 2022 during a public appearance.
Writer Salman Rushdie has made a public speech nine months after being stabbed and seriously injured onstage.
Descriptions of characters as "fat," "ugly" and "crazy" have been removed. "This is absurd censorship," said the author Salman Rushdie on Twitter.
The acclaimed author's latest novel is a grand historical fantasy – the recreation of an ancient epic about an empire's rise and fall, told through the voice of a woman touched by a goddess' inspiration.
The author spoke about last year's near-fatal stabbing in an interview with the New Yorker
The author's literary agent discussed his injuries in an interview with El País over the weekend.
The criminal case against the man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie involves so much potential evidence that prosecutors say they need more time to review it.
A judge in western New York denied bail to the suspect accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie, who suffered liver and nerve damage and could lose an eye.
The 24-year-old New Jersey man appeared on the charges in a western New York courtroom.
Author Salman Rushdie is awake and speaking with investigators days after being stabbed before a lecture in western New York. CBS News anchors Tanya Rivero and Elaine Quijano spoke to Abbas Milani, director of Iranian studies at Stanford University and research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution, about the geopolitical implications the investigation could have.
"We do not consider anyone other than Salman Rushdie and his supporters worthy of blame and even condemnation," said a foreign ministry spokesman.
Salman Rushdie's agent says the author is "on the road to recovery" two days after suffering serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in upstate New York.