Iranian Journalist Marzieh Hashemi Speaks of Detention by FBI

TEHRAN (defapress) – Marzieh Hashemi, a journalist and anchor working for Iran’s English-language Press TV television news network, had been imprisoned in the United States without charges.

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Date: 03 February 2019 - 13:47

In an interview with Now This the Iranian anchor remembers the horrible conditions during the time she was being held at a detention facility in Washington DC despite no formal charges have been pressed against her.

The American-born journalist and television presenter, who had been traveling within the United States to visit her ill brother and other relatives, was detained at St. Louis Lambert International Airport on Sunday, and later transferred by the FBI to the detention facility.

She was released and returned to Tehran after spending 10 days in a jail then issued a statement at the Press TV Headquarters in Tehran on Saturday.

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