Lawyer: Former Marine held in Iran secretly retried
A former U.S. Marine previously sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges has been secretly retried, convicted of collaborating with the U.S. government and sentenced to 10 years in prison, The New York Times reported. Amir Hekmati, an Iranian-American held in Iran since 2011, was not told by Iranian officials about the trial, held in December, the conviction for "practical collaboration with the American government" or a new sentence, his laywer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei, told the Times in interviews this week at his office in ...
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