Hadi Kill, Salman Rushdie attacker, sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempted murder

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A judge in New York has thus imposed the maximum fine requested by the public prosecutor. The most important lawyer of Dead is of the opinion that the jury cannot remain impartial during the trial, that after just over two weeks was resolved and reached with a judgment in just two hours.

Hadi KillThe man who stabbed To the writer Salman Rushdie during one Literary event in August 2022This Friday was sentenced to 25 years in prison and guarded five freedom by that attempted murder, in which the British-American writer of Indian descent lost his right eye and part of the motor skills of one hand.

Judge David Foley, from the Court Court of Chautaqua ( New York), So the maximum fine imposed by the office of the public prosecutor and has punished the convicted person with another seven years in prison plus three of freedom for second degree aggression against the moderator who accompanied Rushdie at that time.

The penalties must be filled at the same time because both victims were injured in the same incident, the prosecutors of Chautauqua County have cleared up. That is, in practice it becomes 25.

The writer did not return to this court today, a small city northwest of New York, to hear the punishment, but Hadi seemed to kill to make a statement before listening to the punishment.


The British-American writer of Indian descent, Salman Rushdie, on January 31, 2025. Photo: EFE

The British-American writer of Indian descent, Salman Rushdie, on January 31, 2025. Photo: EFE

Kill qualifies the writer as “hypocritical”

Kill, what had not been guilty And that he did not take the floor during the entire process, he described today as “hypocritical” the writer, they have reported local media since the court. “Salman Rushdie does not want to respect others (…) wants to bother others and I don’t agree,” he said.

Rushdie published his novel ‘The satanic verses’ In 1988, that the Iranian government He considered blasphemy. A year later Tehran issued a fetus to reward with 3 million dollars that hunt for Rushdie. However, the Tehran regime withdrew this fetus in 1998.

The defense believes that the jury could not remain impartial

The most important lawyer to kill, Nathaniel Barone, has argued that all these circumstances have assumed the trial because the jury could not remain impartial.

During the process, which was resolved afterwards little more than two weeks and with one judgment reached in just two hours Because of the jury, the only words that came out of the mouth to kill were to pass on to the press procedures in favor of the Palestinian case.

Rushdie, who was admitted to the hospital and underwent intense rehabilitation, was published last year ‘Knife’ (Mes) where he took out how that event had transformed him and even re -created a fictional conversation with his aggressor.

On that summer day of August 12, 2022, not only the life of Rushdie ends, but also injured Henry ReesePresenter of that literary event that related to freedom of expression and authors in exile.

Hadi Mat has another open business through the federal via, of which he has not been guilty, in which he is reportedly accused of having material help to the Lebanese organization Hizbulá.

Source: EITB

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