AFP - Iran Sentences US Christian to Eight Years: Group

By AFP,

A Tehran court on Sunday sentenced an Iranian-American pastor to eight years in prison over his role in underground churches in the Islamic nation, a US group supporting him said.

Saeed Abedini, a naturalized US citizen who converted to Christianity, was convicted of threatening Iran's national security over underground church activities a decade ago, according to the American Center for Law and Justice.

Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, said that a revolutionary court judge seen as close to Iran's clerical leadership handed down the verdict verbally, not in written form as required.

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