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Iran journalist arrested in US
[DAWN] A journalist for Iran's English-language Press TV has been jugged
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
 in the United States, the news channel said on Wednesday.

US-born Marzieh Hashemi was arrested on arrival at St Louis Lambert International Airport on Sunday, according to family and friends cited by Press TV.

"The US officials have so far refused to provide any reasons for her apprehension either to her or her family," the broadcaster said on its website.

It added that Hashemi, a Moslem convert who changed her name from Melanie Franklin, had been visiting "her ill brother and other family members."

Press TV claimed that all she had been offered to eat was pork, religiously forbidden for Moslems.

The broadcaster was due to hold a presser on her case later on Wednesday.
The Daily Mail has the usual photos, and adds:
  • Marzieh Hashemi, a prominent American anchorwoman on Iranian state television, has been arrested by the FBI and is being held as a material witness

  • She was detained on Sunday while trying to fly out of St Louis where she was filming a Black Lives Matter documentary after visiting family in New Orleans

  • Hashemi had driven from Denver to New Orleans and then St Louis, saying that she did not want to fly because she is 'harassed'

  • The FBI said in an email that it had no comment on the arrest of the woman who was born Melanie Franklin of New Orleans

  • She lives about half the time in Colorado, where her children live, and half the time in Iran

Posted by: Fred 2019-01-17
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