American expert Ashley Tellis espionage case dismissed by US judge

Washington, May 7 A federal judge in Virginia has dismissed without prejudice an Espionage Act case against Indian-American strategic affairs scholar Ashley J. Tellis, ruling in favour of a defence argument that prosecutors used the wrong statutory provision in charging him with unlawful retention of classified documents. US District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff granted Tellis’ motion to dismiss on April 16 after hearing arguments from both sides in Alexandria, Virginia. The brief court order said the motion was “GRANTED” and that the case was “DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.” Tellis, a well-known scholar of international security and US foreign policy, had been…