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Tue, 02/22/2011 - 08:06
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German foreign minister meets Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, Feb.22(MNA)-- German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle held a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran early on Sunday.
Westerwelle arrived in Tehran on Saturday night following the news that the Iranian court commuted the 20-month imprisonment sentence of two German nationals, arrested in 2010, to a fine of around $50,000.
Westerwelle travelled to Iran to secure their release.
Marcus Hellwig and Jens Koch - reporters for the German tabloid Bild am Sonntag - who had entered Iran on tourist visas, were arrested in on October 10, 2010 for trying to interview relatives of Sakineh Ashtiani without having obtained journalistic credentials. Ashtiani has been convicted of adultery and murder.
Hellwig and Koch along with Westerwelle left Tehran for Berlin on Sunday.
"I thank my Iranian counterpart (Ali Akbar Salehi) for his helpful support on this issue," Westerwelle said in Germany.
Westerwelle arrived in Tehran on Saturday night following the news that the Iranian court commuted the 20-month imprisonment sentence of two German nationals, arrested in 2010, to a fine of around $50,000.
Westerwelle travelled to Iran to secure their release.
Marcus Hellwig and Jens Koch - reporters for the German tabloid Bild am Sonntag - who had entered Iran on tourist visas, were arrested in on October 10, 2010 for trying to interview relatives of Sakineh Ashtiani without having obtained journalistic credentials. Ashtiani has been convicted of adultery and murder.
Hellwig and Koch along with Westerwelle left Tehran for Berlin on Sunday.
"I thank my Iranian counterpart (Ali Akbar Salehi) for his helpful support on this issue," Westerwelle said in Germany.
