American police arrested Marzieh Hashemi, a journalist and anchor working for Iran’s English-language Press TV television news network.
Iranian Press TV’s journalist arrested in US
STEPANAKERT, JANUARY 16, ARTSAKHPRESS: “Press TV has learned that she was transferred by the FBI to a detention facility in Washington, D.C. The US officials have so far refused to provide any reasons for her apprehension either to her or her family,” Press TV reported.
According to the source, American-born Hashemi was detained at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday.
Hashemi has arrived in the US to visit her ill brother and other family members.
The journalist also said that she had her hijab forcibly removed, and was photographed without her headscarf upon arrival at the prison. The host has been offered only pork as meal and even denied bread and any other halal food after refusing to consume the meat.
