New Delhi, May 16 -- Salman Rushdie's attacker, a 27-year-old American-Lebanese man, Hadi Matar, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 2022 knife attack on Rushdie at a cultural event in New York.

Convicted in February of attempted murder and assault, Matar had stabbed Salman Rushdie multiple times in the face and neck, leaving the author 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," AFP quoted Salman Rushdie as saying, who also added that he was left in a "lake of blood."

Matar received the maximum sentence of 25 year...