Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie canceled his planned speech at a California college after students protested his appearance.

Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author ...

In February, a jury found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie while the ...

Two recent flare-ups over commencement speeches show how difficult—and necessary—truly defending free expression is.

Why did Salman Rushdie, famed author of “The Satanic Verses” and radical Islam’s most famous heretic, abruptly bow out of ...

A man who attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife in front of a stunned audience in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind ...

Hadi Matar, the defendant, said he believed Mr. Rushdie to be a hypocrite. His attack left the acclaimed author blind in one ...

Lawyers for New Jersey resident Hadi Matar said they planned to appeal the sentence, which was the maximum possible.

The New Jersey man who tried to kill acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.Hadi Matar ...

Salman Rushdie, the author who was nearly murdered three years ago because of a novel he wrote, once articulated what he thought supporting free speech meant: “The defense of free expression ...

Salman Rushdie's attacker, Hadi Matar, receives 25-year sentence for attempted murder. Rushdie was stabbed during a lecture, ...