Jailed US-Iranian hopes new prosecutor will release him

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Tue, 2019-04-30 13:25

TEHRAN: An Iranian-American serving a ten-year sentence for spying will request conditional release due to a change of Tehran’s prosecutor, his lawyer said, quoted by state media Tuesday.
Dual national Siamak Namazi was convicted in October 2016 of “espionage and collaboration with the American government.”
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison along with his 80-year-old father Baquer, a former official for the UN’s agency for children, UNICEF.
Siamak Namazi has now served four years of his sentence, having been jailed ahead of his conviction.