A court hearing in the case of the woman accused of plotting to abduct Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist and activist living in New York, and smuggle her from the US to Iran was delayed this week.
The court date for Niloufar Bahadorifar, an Iranian based in California, was postponed due to a “voluminous” amount of paperwork her lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, received from prosecutors, he wrote in a letter.
The hearing, set for Thursday at the District Court for the Southern District of New York, was pushed back to February 4, the court said in an addendum to the letter.
Ms Bahadorifar is accused of financing the plan to abduct Ms Alinejad, a journalist and outspoken critic of the Tehran government.
The defendant, who is also known as Nellie Bahadorifar, denies the charges.
Four men were also named in the indictment. They are an Iranian intelligence official and three officers who work under him, the US Justice Department said. It said they all live in Iran.
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Key findings of Jenkins report
- Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al Banna, "accepted the political utility of violence"
- Views of key Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, Sayyid Qutb, have “consistently been understood” as permitting “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” and “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
- Muslim Brotherhood at all levels has repeatedly defended Hamas attacks against Israel, including the use of suicide bombers and the killing of civilians.
- Laying out the report in the House of Commons, David Cameron told MPs: "The main findings of the review support the conclusion that membership of, association with, or influence by the Muslim Brotherhood should be considered as a possible indicator of extremism."
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