IRAN-USA/TRIAL-REZAIAN FILE Iran judiciary issue verdict in Rezaian case - state TV

Record ID: 134977

  • Title: IRAN-USA/TRIAL-REZAIAN FILE Iran judiciary issue verdict in Rezaian case - state TV
  • Date: 11th October 2015
  • Summary: TEHRAN, IRAN (FILE) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ENTRANCE OF EVIN HOUSE OF DETENTION PRISON CORRIDOR INSIDE A CELL VARIOUS OF HALLS FOR THE MEETING OF PRISONERS WITH THEIR RELATIVES RELATIVES OF THE PRISONERS SEATED IN HALL WAITING TO VISIT VARIOUS OF PRISON'S MEDICAL CLINIC PRISON'S PHARMACY TWO FEMALE CLERKS SEATED IN MEDICAL OFFICE MEDICAL FILES VARIOUS OF THE PRISONERS WORKING
  • Embargoed: 26th October 2015 12:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA1763JWVU68GQ5O6GQYWCO0D2Q
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Iran has issued a verdict in the espionage trial of Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian, the judiciary said on Sunday (October 11) without giving details, two months after the final hearing.
    California-born Rezaian, the Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief, was arrested in July 2014 and spent several months in jail before his trial. The final hearing was on August 10.
    "The ruling on this case has been issued. There is still the possibility of this ruling being appealed, and it is not final," judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said in a televised news conference.
    He did not say whether Rezaian had been convicted or acquitted, nor give any further details.
    Iran has accused Rezaian, 39, of collecting confidential information and handing it to hostile governments, writing a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama and acting against national security.
    The Post has described the proceedings against its reporter as a "sham trial".
    Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani last month hinted at the possibility of releasing Rezaian in exchange for Iranian prisoners in the United States, but officials have downplayed the possibility of any such swap.
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