Islamic regime sentences German hostage to 18 months in prison

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzzi.

The Islamic regime, in a "spectacle" Kangaroo court has sentenced Donald Klein, a German stonemason to 18 months in the Bandar Abbas prison. Klein who was arrested on November 29th while fishing with a French friend off the coast of Abu Mousa island was captured by the regimes coast guard and charged with encroachment on Iranian waters. Following Klein’s tribunal, his wife who is in Germany announced the details of his sentence; authorities from the German ministry of foreign affairs in Berlin said however, that the verdict of the Bandar Abbas court had not as of yet been officially announced to them. Mrs. Klein said that the sentence was unacceptable and has appealed to German Chancellor Merkel for help in her husband’s case.