MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A man who attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife in front of a stunned audience in 2022, leaving the ...

Before being sentenced, Matar stood and made a statement about freedom of speech in which he called Rushdie a hypocrite.

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