Statement On The Detention Of Marzieh Hashemi
Aron Trainin, the Soviet legal scholar whose work helped serve as a basis for the Nuremberg Charter, said that “crimes against peace” included “acts of aggression” and “propaganda of aggression.” It is in that context that we view the FBI’s illegal seizure and holding of truth-telling journalist Marzieh Hashemi, a Black American grandmother who is a world-renowned news anchor for PressTV.
Hashemi’s reporting has exposed the illegal war-making of the United States government in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Ukraine, among other places. Her arrest last Sunday by the FBI as she was visiting family is an affront to journalistic and diplomatic norms and, as it is intended to discourage truthful reporting on American war crimes, another Nuremberg-level offense by Washington.
March on the Pentagon demands her immediate release and a statement clearing her of all wrongdoing and apologizing for this grotesque act of harassment.
