For more than three months, they sit in prison, then they should come on bail: According to the Iranian news agency ISNA Tehran is planning to release two German reporters to a fine. Members had previously addressed a plea for clemency to the Government. Hamburg - The government in Tehran wants the German journalist detained in Iran Marcus Hellwig, 45, and Jens Koch, 29, apparently soon to release.
"The sentence was commuted to a fine of 500 million riyals. After payment, they are released," the news agency ISNA quoted an Iranian lawyer. The fine amounts to the equivalent of 35 700 €. Originally, the two reporters were sentenced to a prison sentence of 20 months. The Foreign Ministry said in a first reaction, it was hoped that the two journalists would soon be free.
"We try to ensure that both our citizens can as soon as possible return home." Similarly, the Office had already been expressed in the matter. Members of the two German journalists detained in Iran had been a mercy petition to the government in Tehran addressed. With the application they wanted to achieve the early release of the reporters who have been the fall of 2010 in prison.
"On March 21, the Iranian New Year Nowrus. would have been in advance of the holiday in recent years, pardoned many prisoners, "said the sisters Miriam Lobinsky and Christina Hellwig SPIEGEL. The initiative is supported by the Foreign Office in Berlin, where the members had come together on Thursday, it said.
The request for clemency was there "taken seriously" had been and would be forwarded through diplomatic channels. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle late January State Secretary Wolf-Ruthart sent Born for talks in Tehran to appeal for the release of two reporters. The two reporters from the newspaper "Bild am Sonntag" were on October 10 arrested in northwestern Iran Tabriz, as they tried to interview the son of the Iranian Sakine Mohammadi Aschtiani.
It had been previously convicted of murder and adultery to death by stoning. Officially, the Germans a violation alleged to visa regulations. Mohammadi Aschtiani should first be stoned for adultery, and now they could be convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of her husband to death by hanging for the arrest of the journalists had led to serious diplomatic turbulence between Germany and Iran among others was the Iranian ambassador summoned to Foreign Office.
"The sentence was commuted to a fine of 500 million riyals. After payment, they are released," the news agency ISNA quoted an Iranian lawyer. The fine amounts to the equivalent of 35 700 €. Originally, the two reporters were sentenced to a prison sentence of 20 months. The Foreign Ministry said in a first reaction, it was hoped that the two journalists would soon be free.
"We try to ensure that both our citizens can as soon as possible return home." Similarly, the Office had already been expressed in the matter. Members of the two German journalists detained in Iran had been a mercy petition to the government in Tehran addressed. With the application they wanted to achieve the early release of the reporters who have been the fall of 2010 in prison.
"On March 21, the Iranian New Year Nowrus. would have been in advance of the holiday in recent years, pardoned many prisoners, "said the sisters Miriam Lobinsky and Christina Hellwig SPIEGEL. The initiative is supported by the Foreign Office in Berlin, where the members had come together on Thursday, it said.
The request for clemency was there "taken seriously" had been and would be forwarded through diplomatic channels. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle late January State Secretary Wolf-Ruthart sent Born for talks in Tehran to appeal for the release of two reporters. The two reporters from the newspaper "Bild am Sonntag" were on October 10 arrested in northwestern Iran Tabriz, as they tried to interview the son of the Iranian Sakine Mohammadi Aschtiani.
It had been previously convicted of murder and adultery to death by stoning. Officially, the Germans a violation alleged to visa regulations. Mohammadi Aschtiani should first be stoned for adultery, and now they could be convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of her husband to death by hanging for the arrest of the journalists had led to serious diplomatic turbulence between Germany and Iran among others was the Iranian ambassador summoned to Foreign Office.
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