(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 ...

The man in her garden, Khalid Mehdiyev, had been directed to kill Alinejad by fellow members of a Russian mob organization known as Thieves-in-Law, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, prosecutors said.

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 ...

Prosecutors said the convicted men, Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, were crime bosses in the Russian mob. Defense lawyers ...

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A Manhattan federal jury found Rafat Amirov, 46, of Iran, and Polad Omarov, 40, of Georgia, guilty on all five counts related to a murder-for-hire scheme targeting journalist and human rights activist ...

Polad Omarov and Rafat Amirov were hired by Iran to murder Alinejad due to her fierce criticism of Iran’s theocratic authoritarian government. Omarov and Amirov were high-ranking members of an Eastern ...

A lot of cursing and threats.” The man in her garden, Khalid Mehdiyev, had been directed to kill Alinejad by fellow members of a Russian mob organization known as Thieves-in-Law, Rafat Amirov and ...