Author Salman Rushdie (Image credits: AP) DAYTON: Salman Rushdie was among the honorees Sunday at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize event in Ohio, receiving a lifetime achievement award after publishing his first work of fiction since being stabbed on a New York lecture stage three years ago. The prizes honour both literary merit and the […]
Hadi Matar was convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie in 2022 (Image: AP) The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in […]
US convicts two men for assassination attempt on Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad Masih Alinejad, like Salman Rushdie before her, is a stark reminder of how far authoritarian regimes will go to silence dissent. Both have lived under the threat of assassination for expressing ideas that challenge theocratic power. While Rushdie faced a fatwa over fiction, […]
