UN says 2 Americans unjustly held in Iran part of a pattern
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Two Iranian-Americans serving 10-year prison sentences on spying charges in Iran should be immediately freed and paid restitution, a United Nations panel said on Monday, calling their “arbitrary” detention part of an “emerging pattern” by Tehran of targeting dual nationals. In their report, the U.N.'s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention dismissed the cases against the two men, saying their case is part of “an emerging pattern involving the arbitrary deprivation of liberty of dual nationals.” “There is no evidence either Mr. S. Namazi or Mr. B. Namazi had a criminal record, including in relation to national security offenses,” their report read. “It is time for Iran to resolve these cases and allow the Namazis to be reunited with their family.” Others with ties to the West detained in Iran include Chinese-American graduate student Xiyue Wang, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for allegedly “infiltrating” the country while doing doctoral research on Iran’s Qajar dynasty. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman, was sentenced to five years in prison on allegations of planning the “soft toppling” of Iran’s government while traveling with her young daughter.
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