The
FBI abduction of Marzieh Hashemi is another milestone in the US turn to
fascism. Marzieh Hashemi is a well-recognized and highly respected
journalist and TV anchorwoman for Press TV, which is affiliated with the
Islamic Republic of Iran. She was abducted on January 15th as she was boarding a flight to Denver from St. Louis.
Marzieh
was whisked to an unknown location in the vicinity of Washington, DC.
The Washington DC area was probably chosen, as Northern Virginia is the
site of what is referred to as the “CIA court”, in which so-called
national security cases are heard, because the government can be assured
of government-friendly juries. In such cases, juries side with the
government 99.9% of the time.
Marzieh
is being held incommunicado, as this is being written, and she has not
been heard from publicly. Nor does her family and friends know her exact
location of imprisonment. It took nearly a week before the US
government even acknowledged Marzieh’s arrest.
All
the US government finally said was that Marzieh is being held as a
“material witness” to an unspecified crime. Though not charged with any
crime, Marzieh is being treated worse than a criminal. Her human, civil
and religious rights have been violated. Reportedly all she has been
able to eat is crackers, because the government is not respecting her
religious dietary requirements.
According to reports from Press TV,
Marzieh has been very mistreated to the point of torture. Her hijab was
forcibly removed, she has been denied halal food, kept in a cold
solitary dungeon without adequate clothing, and her hands and legs are
shackled during brief period in an enclosed exercise yard..........http://www.unz.com/article/the-us-war-on-freedom-of-the-press/
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