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Detained For Pay to Mehdiyev with AK47 by
Home of Iran Dissident Masij Alinejad
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Jan
27 vlog
SDNY MAG COURT,
Jan 27 - 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 exclusively reported
learned on July 29, 2022,
In
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York past 5 pm that day, 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
On January 27,
2023, Mehdiyev's paymaster was
presented, again before Judge
Cave. He was in a black
t-shirt, repeating "Da"
sullenly, detained on consent
with a taxpayer-funded lawyer.
He will next appear before
Judge Colleen McMahon on
January 31 at 4 pm. Inner City
Press will stay on the cases,
including of Polad Omarov, set
to be extradited in from the
Czech Republic. Vlog here
Back on
July 29, 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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