Arent Fox partner Pierre-Richard Prosper’s representation of a former US Marine who has been accused of espionage and sentenced to death by the Iranian government was featured in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. Amir Hekmati, an Iranian-American US citizen born in Arizona and raised in Michigan, was arrested in mid-September while on a visit to Iran and charged with spying.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the family of Mr. Hekmati has retained “prominent international lawyer Pierre-Richard Prosper to help aid the imprisoned American. … Mr. Prosper, a Los Angeles-based attorney with the firm Arent Fox LLP, is a former Rwanda war crimes prosecutor who served as US ambassador-at-large in the George W. Bush administration. In 2010, he successfully negotiated the freedom of Reza Taghavi, an Iranian-American businessman from California who had been imprisoned in Tehran.”

To read the full Wall Street Journal article, please click here.

The Wall Street Journal article comes one day after Ambassador Prosper was interviewed on CNN discussing the Hekmati case.

To watch the CNN interview, please click here.