WaPo's Executive Editor on Being Part of the Jason Rezaian Story
"We have very strong opinions about how Jason has been treated, and we’ve not been hesitant to express that point of view."
The jailing of a journalist anywhere as a pretext to quash the freedom of the press affects every journalist. When that journalist is one of your own, the matter is both more dire and more complex. For the ongoing, 10-month long imprisonment of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, the paper found itself with a journalist it needed to advocate for, and a story it needed to cover.
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