Convicted assailant of author Salman Rushdie found guilty of federal terrorism charges...

The man convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie in 2022 was found guilty of federal terrorism charges in a U.S. court. Prosecutors presented evidence that the attacker spent more than a year studying the Iranian fatwa before carrying out the assault.

The case centers on the 1989 edict issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini over Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.