WORLD IN BRIEF : IRAQ : Visit to Plead for Reporter Is Rejected
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd’s request to visit Iraq to ask for mercy on behalf of a journalist condemned to death has been rejected, the British Foreign Office announced. Britain has been waging a campaign seeking clemency for London-based journalist Farzad Bazoft, who was convicted of espionage by an Iraqi court last week and sentenced to death. Bazoft, a stateless Iranian, has lived in Britain since 1975 and reports for The Observer, a British weekly.
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