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Iran journalist arrested in US | |
2019-01-17 | |
[DAWN] A journalist for Iran's English-language Press TV has been juggedInto 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.
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Posted by:Fred |
#1 She lives about half the time in Colorado, where her children live, and half the time in Iran Lovely. Now they can visit her more often in the Jug |
Posted by: Frank G 2019-01-17 06:34 |