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On January 15, 2019, Hashemi was arrested by the FBI while boarding a St. Louis flight to visit her children in Denver. The cause for her arrest was initially unknown, but according to subsequent court documents she was being held as a material witness for a federal investigation. Following testimony before a federal grand jury in Washington D.C., Hashemi was released on 23 January 2019.

She changed her name to Marzieh Hashemi after conversion; Hashemi is her Muslim husband’s last name and she chose Marzieh, a title of Fatimah bint Muhammad, the daughter of an Islamic Prophet.

According to Iranian sources, on January 13, 2019, she travelled to the United States to visit her family, particularly her ill brother. Marzieh was arrested at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri and was being held in custody in Washington DC. The cause for her arrest was initially unknown, but according to subsequent court documents she was being held as a material witness for a federal investigation but "has not been accused of any crime". According to Reuters, a US government source told them that a grand jury was examining whether Press TV failed to register as a foreign agent which would be required if it is a propaganda outlet. Following testimony before a federal grand jury in Washington D.C., Hashemi was released on 23 January 2019, and returned to Iran on 30 January 2019.

After Marzieh Hashemi arrested in 13 January 2019 in USA and held 11 days without charge in custody in Washington DC, protest be held in 24 cities in world on January 25, to demand the release of Marzieh Hashemi.

On Wednesday 24 January 2019 her family announced that "the US government has released Marzieh Hashemi without charge after 10 days of illegal detention".

Since 2008, she has lived in Iran, where she is now a TV presenter, journalist, voice-over artist, and documentarian and the host of Press TV, Iran's English-language broadcasting network.

Hashemi was born in New Orleans, United States. She was born into a Christian African-American family. She was a student in the field of broadcasting in 1979, when the Iranian revolution happened, as a result of which she converted to Islam and began her career in Islamic newspapers and magazines in U.S.

Marzieh Hashemi (Persian: مرضیه هاشمی ‎; born Melanie Franklin, 21 December 1959) is an American-Iranian journalist and television presenter. She is a natural-born citizen of the United States and a naturalized citizen of Iran. She is employed by Iran's Press TV news agency.