 David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, said yesterday that he expected the eighth of the nine British Embassy employees arrested ten days ago to be released soon but a lawyer representing the ninth -- a political analyst named Hossein Rossam -- said he would be charged with threatening national security. Mr Miliband expressed "cold anger" at the way the nine had been treated.
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The regime freed Iason Athanasiadis, an Anglo-Greek journalist arrested on June 19. However, a lawyer for Maziar Bahari, a Canadian-Iranian journalist working for Newsweek, said he faced charges of "instigating riots and acting against national security". |