{"id":155285,"date":"2026-07-28T19:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155285"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:46:18","slug":"defendant-in-salman-rushdie-stabbing-declines-to-testify-in-federal-terrorism-trialunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155285","title":{"rendered":"Defendant in Salman Rushdie stabbing declines to testify in federal terrorism trialUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe man on trial in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie chose on Tuesday not to testify or call any witnesses in the federal terrorism case, which is expected to head to the jury as soon as Wednesday.<br \/>\nHadi Matar\u2019s lawyer told the court that the 28-year-old \u2013 who already has been convicted of state-level attempted murder charges \u2013 would not take the stand at his trial on charges that include engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.<br \/>\n\u201cAt this time, the defence rests,\u201d lawyer Nathaniel Barone said&#8230;.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3362182\/defendant-salman-rushdie-stabbing-declines-testify-federal-terrorism-trial?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe man on trial in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie chose on Tuesday not to testify or call any witnesses in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}