Thirty-seven years ago, Khomeini sentenced him to death for "The Satanic Verses". Today, the Indian-British writer is giving evidence at the federal trial of Hadi Matar, who stabbed him fifteen times in 2022: “I felt the pain and cried out: ‘What’s happened to my eye?’ It was a huge pool of blood.”

Hadi Matar has already been convicted of state-level attempted murder charges for the 2022 attack that left the author blind in one eye.

Hadi Matar is already serving a 25-year prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the 2022 attack. The federal conviction carries a potential life sentence.