A Yonkers man was to enter a plea Tuesday in an alleged murder-for-hire plot. Prosecutors say he and two co-defendants targeted a Brooklyn woman -- a U.S. citizen and human rights activist working to end repression in her native Iran. AielloTV reports.
Prosecutors say he and two co-defendants targeted a Brooklyn woman -- a U.S. citizen and human rights activist working to end repression in her native Iran.
Alinejad's social media campaign against Iran's human rights violations and discrimination of women put a target on her back. Three men are charged in a murder-for-hire plotAccording to the federal indictment, during the week of July 20th last summer, Mehdiyev repeatedly drove from Yonkers to Brooklyn to scope out Alinejad's home and neighborhood.
"Last year we indicted four individuals connected to Iranian intelligence with a kidnapping conspiracy aimed at forcibly returning the victim to Iran," said Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen.
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