| Arrested
with AK47 Outside Home of Iran Dissident,
Azerbaijan Man Is Detained in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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EXCLUSIVE, July 29 - A man
from Azerbaijan has been
arrested with an AK-47 style
assault rifle surveilling the
Brooklyn home of an Iranian
journalist, Inner City Press
learned on July 29.
In
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York past 5 pm, a detention or
release proceeding was held by
Magistrate Judge Sarah Cave on
defendant Khalid Mehdiyev. He
was heavy-set and in a black
T-shirt, escorted in by two US
Marshals. Inner City Press was
the only media there.
Complaint on Patreon here
Assistant
US Attorney Matthew Hellman
described Mehdiyev in a
borrowed car, a gray Subaru
Forester SUV with an
Illinois license plate, with
66 rounds of ammunition and
the gun, outside the house of
a person he described as an
Iranian dissident and human
rights activist who was
previously the targets of an
indicted plot by Iranian
government operatives to
kidnap her.
Inner City
Press' research upon leaving
the Magistrates Court found
that Alireza Shavaroghi
Farahani, Mahmoud Khazein,
Kiya Sadeghi and Omid Noori,
all living in Iran — were
accused of conspiring to
kidnap a Brooklyn journalist,
human rights activist who has
been critical of the Iranian
regime, with a fifth, Niloufar
Bahadorifar, accused of
providing financial support.
The target was identified as
Masih Alinejad.
Mehdiyev's
assigned Criminal Justice Act
lawyer argued that he faces
only five years in prison on
the gun charge, and for
release. But Judge Cave found
his a danger, and a flight
risk, and ordered him
detained.
The
preliminary hearing was set in
two weeks.
The case is US v.
Mehdiyev, 22-mj-6185 (Cave)
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