Who is Amir Hekmati?
Amir Hekmati (BBC Video)
Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more about Amir Hekmati, the Iranian-American sentenced to death for spying in Iran, from Hadi Ghaemi, of the International Campaign for Human Rights, in New York.
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