The Sunday report quotes judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi as saying that Iran’s judiciary has issued its verdict against Jason Rezaian.
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The verdict and the sentence are not yet known.
Rezaian’s trial began in May under a cloak of secrecy.
“Jason has been subjected to a secret, sham trial, solitary confinement, relentless interrogations, physical mistreatment and psychological abuse”, Martin Baron, executive editor of The Post, said, the Washington Times reports. Rezaian, an Iranian-American Washington Post correspondent in Tehran, was detained by the Iranian authorities, together with his spouse & two others on Jul. 22, 2014.
Rezaian was not told for months of the charges against him. What we do know is that Rezaian has never been plausibly accused of a crime, or prosecuted according to Iran’s laws.
The U.S. State Department called the charges “absurd”. “We again call on Iran to release Jason without further delay”.
Boxing great Muhammad Ali, an American Muslim, also urged Tehran to free Rezaian on bail.
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“This vague and puzzling statement by the government of Iran only adds to the injustice that has surrounded Jason’s case since his arrest 15 months ago”. The Washington Post reporter has been detained in Iran for 444 days as of October 9 – the identical size of time dozens of Americans have been held through the Iran hostage disaster that concluded in 1981, his employer reported this week.
