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Who is Masih Alinejad, target of an alleged Iranian kidnapping plot?

Prosecutors say the four Iranian defendants plotted to forcibly take the Brooklyn-based author and activist to Iran where her "fate would have been uncertain at best.”
Journalist and Author Masih Alinejad.

Masih Alinejad, a prominent Iranian-American author and women’s rights activist living in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, confirmed on Tuesday that she was the target of an alleged Iranian kidnapping plot revealed by US federal prosecutors.

Prosecutors in a Manhattan federal court have charged four Iranian nationals with conspiracy to kidnap Alinejad and forcibly take her to Iran “where the victim’s fate would have been uncertain at best.”

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