Salman Rushdie’s assailant, a 27-year-old American-Lebanese man, Hadi Matar, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 2022 knife attack on the renowned author at a cultural event in New York.

Convicted in February of attempted murder and assault, Matar’s brutal stabbing left Rushdie permanently blind in one eye.

Rushdie, a British-American, told jurors during the trial about Matar “stabbing and slashing” him at the upscale cultural center.

“It was a stab wound in my eye, intensely painful, after that I was screaming because of the pain,” Rushdie said, adding that he was left in a “lake of blood.”

Matar received the maximum sentence of 25 years for the attack on Rushdie and seven years for assault on another attendee at the speaking event. The sentences are to run concurrently, reported AFP.

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