The United State police have arrested an American-born Iranian journalist, who works for English-language Press TV in Iran, a report by the state-run broadcaster said on Wednesday.
According to Reuters news reports, the report said journalist Marziyeh Hashemi was arrested on Sunday, at St. Louis Lambert International Airport and was then being held in custody in Washington. No formal charges against the journalists had been made yet.
No FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) officials were immediately available for comment over the arrest in Washington of an Iranian journalist.
According to the broadcaster, Hashemi, documentary filmmaker and a TV anchor, has visited the US address her family, and after two-day of her arrest, she was allowed to call her daughter.
According to Press TV, Hashemi was born in Melanie Franklin in the US and then changed her name after converting her religion in Islam. The Press quoted Hashemi as saying that she had been avoided from wearing the Islamic dress code in the prison, the hijab, and was only offered pork to eat as a meal, which was prohibited in Islam.
It further quoted Hashemi as saying that she has had offered a “packet of crackers” over the past two days in the prison in the US.
According to several Iranian media, Hashemi, from more than a decade, had been living in Iran and has filed several reports there on the subject of various kind of discriminations against Muslims, women, and African-Americans in the US.