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TEHRAN — An Iranian appeals court has overturned a death sentence of a former U.S. Marine convicted of working for the CIA, instead sentencing him to 10 years in prison, his attorney said Saturday.
Amir Hekmati, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen born in Arizona, was arrested in August 2011, then tried, convicted and sentenced to death for spying.
The Revolutionary Court overturned the conviction for espionage, said his lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei. Instead, it charged him with “cooperating with hostile governments,” Tabatabaei said. The Associated Press
