Jurors have watched videos showing Salman Rushdie being repeatedly stabbed on a stage in western New York while audience members gasped in horror at the attack that left the prized-winning novelist seriously wounded and blinded in one eye.

Jurors who will determine the fate of a man who is accused of attempting to kill a world-renowned author by stabbing him multiple times two and a half years ago were shown videos of the event. On Friday,

Author Salman Rushdie has taken the stand in a New York courtroom to testify against the man charged with stabbing him in a frenzied knife attack.

Hadi Matar is charged with attempted murder in the attack, which took place in 2022 as Mr. Rushdie was about to speak at an arts conference in western New York.

Feb. 14 marked the anniversary of the 1989 fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie by Iran’s Ayatollah. It was also the fourth day of testimony in the trial of Hadi Matar, the New Jersey man accused of stabbing the renowned author at the Chautauqua Institution in August 2022.

A man injured alongside author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack on a New York lecture stage told jurors that he tried to stop the assault once he realized it wasn't a prank and was left with a gash above his eye.