(Reuters)<\/p>\n
A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered two Iranian nationals facing charges of filming Israel’s embassy in Nairobi for the purpose of terrorism to be deported back to Iran, a public prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahimi and Abdolhosein Ghola Safafe were arrested on Nov. 29 while in a car belonging to the Iranian embassy, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said in early December that they were Tehran-based university teachers.<\/p>\n
Their Kenyan driver, Moses Keyah Mmboga, was also arrested. All three denied taking video clips of the embassy “for use in (committing…) a terrorist act”.<\/p>\n
Public prosecutor Duncan Ondimu told Reuters he had successfully applied to the court for the case to be discontinued and the two Iranians to be deported immediately.<\/p>\n
He gave no explanation for the discontinuation request.<\/p>\n
The driver, an employee of the embassy, was released, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
In 2002, 15 people died when an Israeli-owned hotel was bombed in Kenya’s coastal town of Mombasa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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