Jason Rezaian's Trial Date Set for Next Week

WaPo's Tehran bureau chief will appear before an Iranian court on May 26.

10 months after he was detained by Iranian authorities, The Washington Post‘s Jason Rezaian finally has a trial date scheduled for next week — this according to Leila Ahsan, Rezaian’s lawyer.

Among the charges that have been leveled against the Post’s bureau chief are “espionage,” “collaborating with hostile governments” and “propaganda against the establishment.”

The Post’s executive editor, Martin Baron, labelled Rezaian’s trial “contemptible prosecution,” releasing a statement on the news Tuesday morning:

The serious criminal charges that Jason now faces in Iran’s Revolutionary Court are not supported by a single fact.

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