Man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie faces sentencing in New York

Hadi Matar sits in Chautauqua County court in Mayville, New York (Adrian Kraus/AP)

The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prize-winning author blind in one eye, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.

A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February.