Iran court overturns ex-US Marine's death sentence
File picture shows an Iranian policewoman walking between police vehicles in Tehran (AFP Photo/Behrouz Mehri)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran's Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence handed to a former US Marine convicted of espionage, with the penalty being cut to 10 years in jail, media reported Sunday./ Amir Hekmati, a dual US-Iranian citizen, was arrested in August 2011, put on trial and found guilty of spying for the CIA. In January 2012, he was sentenced to death. His lawyer was quoted on Sunday as saying the sentence had now been ...
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