A jury has found two Eastern European individuals guilty of conspiring to kill US-based journalist Masih Alinejad after being ...

(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal jury on Thursday convicted Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, two purported members of the Russian mob, on all charges related to the 2022 ...

Masih Alinejad, a prominent critic of the regime, is a leader of the movement to free Iranian women from the compulsory hijab ...

Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad expressed gratitude toward the Trump administration and the United States after two of her ...

On July 28, 2022, this murder-for-hire scheme involving Russian mobsters and the Iranian regime targeting a defiant dissident ...

Both individuals were found guilty on all five charges, including attempted murder in aid of racketeering, according to the US Justice Department. A federal jury has convicted Rafat Amirov and ...

The Justice Department announced last week that Rafat Amirov, 46, and Polad Omarov, 40, were convicted of murder-for-hire and attempted murder in aid of racketeering charges over their targeting ...

Prosecutors said the convicted men, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, were crime bosses in the Russian mob. Defense lawyers argued at trial that their clients were innocent and evidence was flawed.

On Tuesday, Alinejad faced the two men accused of hiring the gunman and spearheading the botched murder for hire: Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, who each face charges for their role in the purported ...

The FBI is actively combating violent crime across the United States, addressing a wide spectrum of offenses through ...