New York: The person accused of attacking well-known author Salman Rushdie with a knife has refused to just accept the settlement below which his sentence may have been decreased. If the accused had accepted the costs associated to terrorism within the case, his sentence would have been decreased. The accused’s lawyer has given details about this. Hadi Matar attacked Salman Rushdie in 2022, after which he has been in custody.
That is how a lot punishment Hadi Matar will get
Matar is accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie with a knife greater than 12 instances. Accused Matar attacked Rushdie whereas he was giving a lecture on the Chautauqua Institute in Western New York. Matar’s lawyer Nathaniel Barron confirmed the accused’s refusal to just accept the settlement on Tuesday in Mayville, New York. Beneath this settlement, Matar would have pleaded responsible to tried homicide in Chautauqua County, in return for which he would have been given a most sentence of 20 years in jail as a substitute of 25 years.
Why was the assault performed?
Salman Rushdie wrote the novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ and this was the rationale why he was attacked. Rushdie wrote this novel in 1989. After this novel, an enormous chief of Iran issued a fatwa to kill Rushdie for blasphemy, after which Salman Rushdie needed to dwell in hiding for a few years. Nobody had even imagined that 33 years later in 2022, a 24-year-old youth would do such a factor. Hadi Matar, who lives in Fairview, New Jersey, was not even born on the time of publication of the novel and issuance of the fatwa, but he shocked the entire world by finishing up such an assault.
Iran provides reward to Matar
Allow us to inform you that, Hadi Matar, who attacked Salman Rushdie in America, was additionally given a reward by a basis in Iran. This basis stated that they’re giving Matar one thousand sq. meters of agricultural land. The particular factor is that this was introduced on Iran’s authorities TV. The muse additionally stated that Rushdie is now at least a residing lifeless physique.
