Prosecutors say Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov hired a Yonkers, New York-based gangster to gun Alinejad down outside of her ...

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

Two Eastern European Organized Crime Leaders Convicted of Murder for Hire Targeting U.S.-Based Journalist on Behalf of ...

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

A federal jury returned guilty verdicts against two Eastern European self-described gangsters hired by Iran to send a hit man ...

Both defendants, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, stood quietly as the jury’s foreman answered “guilty” in response to Judge Colleen McMahon’s questions about each of the counts. They were ...

According to the US Department of Justice, the Iranian government hired Polad Omarov and Rafat Amirov to kill Masih Alinejad in exchange for USD 5,00,000. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shared ...

A jury in Manhattan federal court found Rafat Amirov, 46, and Polad Omarov, 40, guilty on Thursday of five charges including murder-for-hire over the planned assassination in 2022 of Masih ...

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

She became an American citizen in 2019. “Blood money that Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov were all too eager to collect,” Mr. Lockard said, referring to the defendants in the courtroom, who are accused ...

Rafat Amirov of Iran and Polad Omarov of Georgia were found guilty in connection with the 2022 murder-for-hire scheme, the Justice Department said in a Friday press release. The plot targeted ...