Iran Press/America: Following the 11-day detention of Iran’s Press TV news anchor Marzieh Hashemi based on a controversial US legal code, people are set to take to the streets of several cities across the world on Friday January 25.
American-born Hashemi, who was released on Wednesday afternoon, has said she would be staying in Washington DC to personally attend the Friday protest there, Press TV reported.
Meanwhile, the US government has released without charge Press TV anchor Marzieh Hashemi after 11 days of illegal detention, her family has announced.
According to Press TV, the journalist appeared before a grand jury in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday morning, when her testimony was expected.
The Associated Press cited the people familiar with her case as saying that she was released after her testimony concluded Wednesday afternoon.
Hashemi, a 59-year-old American-born Muslim convert who has lived in Iran for years, was detained at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri on January 13th while in the US to visit her ill brother and other family members.
She was transferred to a detention facility in Washington, D.C. where she was initially forced to remove her hijab and only offered non-halal food.
The FBI had declined to comment on her arrest, but the US government confirmed that she had been arrested as a “material witness.”
Iran has already protested Hashemi’s detention and ill-treatment. On Tuesday, Iran summoned the Swiss ambassador to Tehran to protest her illegal detention.105
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