New York, July 30 -- A 28-year-old man has been convicted in a federal terrorism prosecution stemming from the 2022 stabbing of acclaimed author Salman Rushdie, the United States Department of Justice announced.

A federal jury found Hadi Matar, a resident of Fairview, New Jersey, guilty of attempting to provide material support to Hezbollah, committing an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries, and supplying material support to terrorists, according to an official statement issued by the US Justice Department on Wednesday.

Addressing the verdict, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg noted that Matar spent "more than a year immersing himself" in the ideology of Hezbollah, a US-designated terrorist gr...