Three indicted in murder-for-hire plot targeting journalist

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced charges Friday against three members of an Eastern European criminal organization said to have plotted the murder of a dissident Iranian journalist living in Brooklyn.

Masih Alinejad fled her home country in 2009 and became a U.S. citizen in 2019. Even in exile, however, she remains a target of the Iranian government because of her activism concerning Tehran's treatment of women and other human rights issues.

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