A man has been convicted on Wednesday on terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie.

Rushdie, an Indian-British novellist, was attacked following a decades-old death threat over his novel The Satanic Verses.

A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.

A message seeking comment was sent to Matar’s attorneys.

Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack on an amphitheatre stage. The federal conviction carries a potential life sentence.

Mr Rushdie, who was about to speak on writers’ safety, was slashed 15 times in front of a stunned audience.

He was seriously wounded and lost the sight in his right eye.