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

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

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

The 77-year-old Indian-born British author was stabbed multiple times during an event at the Chautauqua Institution in New ...

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

In August 2022, Rushdie was repeatedly stabbed at a lecture event in New York in his neck, chest, eye, and other areas. He ...

The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in ...

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

The man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a Western New York arts institute in 2022 was ...

Hadi Matar’s 2022 knife attack left the acclaimed writer blind in one eye.

I read novelist Salman Rushdie’s harrowing account of his near-assassination about a year ago. It’s still etched in my mind. In his memoir “Knife,” Rushdie described in detail how he ...

Sir Salman Rushdie ‘pleased’ by maximum sentence for attacker - The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence ...