A jury has found two Eastern European individuals guilty of conspiring to kill US-based journalist Masih Alinejad after being ...

(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal jury on Thursday convicted Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, two purported members of the Russian mob, on all charges related to the 2022 ...

Masih Alinejad, a prominent critic of the regime, is a leader of the movement to free Iranian women from the compulsory hijab ...

On July 28, 2022, this murder-for-hire scheme involving Russian mobsters and the Iranian regime targeting a defiant dissident ...

Masih Alinejad's thanks came shortly after the U.S. Justice Department announced that two people targeting her had been convicted.

Prosecutors said the convicted men, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, were crime bosses in the Russian mob. Defense lawyers argued at trial that their clients were innocent and evidence was flawed.

On Tuesday, Alinejad faced the two men accused of hiring the gunman and spearheading the botched murder for hire: Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, who each face charges for their role in the purported ...

Prosecutors said the convicted men, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, were crime bosses in the Russian mob. Defense lawyers ...

The FBI is actively combating violent crime across the United States, addressing a wide spectrum of offenses through ...

A Manhattan federal jury found Rafat Amirov, 46, of Iran, and Polad Omarov, 40, of Georgia, guilty on all five counts related to a murder-for-hire scheme targeting journalist and human rights activist ...