He was serving a 10-year sentence after his conviction in a closed trial on charges of "cooperating with hostile governments".
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is reviewing cases from that era, has concluded that many of the estimated 1,250 fishermen who were tried from the 1960s to the 1980s on charges of cooperating with North Korea had confessed to questionable charges under torture.
An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian-American businessman and his elderly father to 10 years in prison on charges of cooperating with the United States, the Iranian judiciary's official news website reported on Tuesday.
Sixty-nine people, most of them members of five closely linked families, have been indicted on conspiracy charges that accuse them of cooperating as one enormous narcotics trafficker to peddle heroin and cocaine in Brooklyn housing projects, prosecutors announced yesterday.
Mr. Palacios was among 75 dissidents arrested in 2003 on charges of illegally cooperating with the United States government.
According to the BBC's Persian-language Web site, sources close to the blogger, Hossein Derakhshan, said that the death penalty had been requested in a closed session of court in which he was accused of charges including "cooperating with hostile governments" and insulting Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Mr. Ahmadinejad.
Lt Col Kevin Olson, spokesman for the Minnesota national guard, said Wednesday that the guard is aware of the charges and cooperating with the FBI investigation.
Buenrostro, 65, pleaded guilty last year to one charge of conspiracy and cooperated with prosecutors.
Mr. Brown, who pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges, is cooperating with prosecutors as part of a plea bargain.
Ms. Baridis pleaded guilty in December to Federal insider-trading charges and is cooperating with the office of United States Attorney Mary Jo White in Manhattan.
