articleThe Brief Hadi Matar is scheduled to be sentenced in November for stabbing Salman Rushdie at an event in 2022. Rushdie lost sight in his right eye and suffered damage to his internal organs. Matar was found guilty by a jury of the attack last week. The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie at a speaking event in 2022 was guilty of federal terrorism charges for the assault. According to Reuters, Rushdie was stabbed over a dozen times in the head, neck, torso and left hand.