The parents of American citizen Amir Hekmati haven’t heard much about their son in March, when the Iranian government overturned the accused spy’s death sentence and ordered a retrial. He presumably remains imprisoned in Iran.
The fate of American game developer Amir Hekmati, currently on death row in Iran, remains in question weeks after the original deadline for appeal has passed.
Amir Hekmati, the US-born game developer sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly engaging in espionage for the CIA, has asked the Obama administration to do whatever it takes, including a prisoner-transfer, to save him from execution.
A day after news broke that US citizen and former game developer Amir Hekmati was sentenced to death by the Iranian government, a glimmer of hope emerged that the 28-eight-year old’s life might be spared.