(16 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mayville, New York -- 16 May 2025
1. Hadi Matar walking into court
2. Exterior of court
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Miami - 16 May 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Joshua Goodman, The Associated Press:
"Hadi Matar, who was the gentleman who assaulted the author Salman Rushdie, he was sentenced today to 25 years in prison. That was, I think the maximum allowed in the state of New York for a brutal attack on the author."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Frankfurt, Germany - 20 October 2023
4. STILL of author Salman Rushdie at a press conference at the Book Fair
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Chautauqua , New York - 12 August 2022
5. Various of interiors and exteriors of Chautauqua Institution after attack
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Miami - 16 May 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Joshua Goodman, The Associated Press:
"Salman Rushdie had been invited to the Chautauqua Institution, which for more than a century has been a place for spiritual reflection and interfaith dialog, he was there to just talk about the United States as a refuge for persecuted writers."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Chautauqua, New York - 12 August 2022
7. STILL of people surrounding Salman Rushdie after he was attacked during a lecture
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Miami - 16 May 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Joshua Goodman, The Associated Press:
"I was in the audience that day. I was there on vacation with my family. I was there sitting next to my father and several members of my family. I was not working, did not expect to work."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Chautauqua, New York - 12 August 2022
9. STILL of Matar being escorted from the stage as people tend to author Salman Rushdie
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Miami - 16 May 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Joshua Goodman, The Associated Press:
"A relative of mine was sitting in the front row actually and he was among about like 10 people who rushed to the front stage to try to subdue the attacker.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Mayville, New York - 21 February 2025
11. Various of Matar in court
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Miami - 16 May 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Joshua Goodman, The Associated Press:
"I think this attack really did open people's eyes to extremism that exists in our own country. I mean, this, his attacker was an American, appears to have been radicalized in the United States."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Mayville, New York - 21 February 2025
13. Medium of Matar and legal team in court
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Miami - 16 May 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Joshua Goodman, The Associated Press:
"At a bare minimum, it raises questions about, you know, the power of hate. I mean, this man really hates Salman Rushdie and hates what he stands for. And I think, represents a real risk when you have people who, in a democracy would, so, you know, overtly and brazenly question the very hallmark of a democracy, which is a free exchange of ideas."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Mayville, New York - 21 February 2025
15. Various of Matar and legal team in court
STORYLINE:
The New Jersey man convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022 has been sentenced to serve 25 years in prison.
Hadi Matar was sentenced Friday in a western New York courtroom, where a jury found him guilty earlier this year of attempted murder and assault.
Associated Press reporter Joshua Goodman was attending the lecture by author Salman Rushdie when Rushdie was stabbed onstage at the Chautauqua Institution.
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