Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini was a Muslim cleric and Marja, and the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.

Matar was also convicted of assault for injuring Ralph Henry Reese, a co-founder of a programme that provides refuge for ...

The verdict came after testimony from Rushdie, who said he had been struck by his attacker’s dark, ferocious […] ...

Salman Rushdie was the key witness during seven days of testimony, describing in chilling detail his near-fatal injuries and ...

A jury in western New York convicted Hadi Matar, a 27-year-old from New Jersey, of attempted murder for the stabbing of Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie, The New York Times reported.

Hadi Matar, a New Jersey man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie, is now on trial. The case spans the history of modern ...

Hadi Matar was convicted of stabbing the author more than a dozen times in 2022 as he was about to give a lecture in western ...

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail The man who stabbed Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture ...

On February 14, in 1989, a fatwa was issued against Salman Rushdie for his book The Satanic Verses by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Illustration: Santan It was on February 14, ...

Guilty verdict reached in trial of man accused of trying to kill author - The British-American novelist was seriously wounded ...