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US religion monitor welcomes release of Iranian Christian
[IsraelTimes] Maryam Naghash Zargaran, a Christian convert from Islam, was placed in durance vile ’simply due to her Christian faith,’ says US government watchdogA US freedom-of-religion monitor has welcomed the release of an Iranian Christian who had worked with a once-imprisoned Iranian-American pastor freed in a January 2016 prisoner swap. Maryam Naghash Zargaran, a Christian convert from Islam, was sentenced in 2013 to four years in prison on charges of acts against national security.
Zargaran, 39, was tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... soon after Abedini was detained. She "suffered unjustly in prison for more than four years simply due to her Christian faith," said USCIRF Commissioner Clifford May in a statement Thursday. Zargaran was released from Evin prison in Tehran on August 1 "and was welcomed by friends and family," according to the Human Rights Activists news agency (HRANA), a US-based human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organization monitoring events in Iran. According to the HRANA, Zargaran went on hunger strike several times to protest her sentence and lack of medical care for her heart problems. Abedini was released in January 2016 as part of a prisoner exchange that included The Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian, who were tossed into the calaboose in Iran for nearly 18 months, and former US Marine Amir Hekmati, all of whom have dual US-Iranian citizenship. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-12 |
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