Trial of man accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie enters second day

Author Salman Rushdie poses for a portrait to promote his book ‘Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’, at the Deutsches Theatre in Berlin, Germany (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Testimony is set to continue in the trial of the man charged with stabbing famed author Salman Rushdie in a frenzied knife attack on a western New York stage.

Jurors in the trial of Hadi Matar, 27, on Monday heard from staff at the arts institution where Rushdie was set to give a speech in August 2022, when authorities say the Fairview, New Jersey man attacked the author on stage and stabbed him more than a dozen times.