Press TV journalist detained in US

Marzieh Hashemi, a journalist and anchor working for Iran’s English-language Press TV television news network, has been detained and imprisoned in the United States for unspecified reasons.

Marzieh Hashemi is a journalist and an African-American Muslim. She traveled to the US to visit her ill brother. But she was detained upon arrival in Missouri and transferred to a detention facility in Washington D.C.  Reports say Marzieh has been shackled and handcuffed.