Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, 3 others freed in Iran prisoner swap deal – reports

Saturday, January 16, 2016
By Paul Martin

RT.com
16 Jan, 2016

Iran has freed four prisoners with dual Iranian-US nationality, the Tehran public prosecutor said Saturday, without releasing their names. However, several news outlets are reporting that Jason Rezaian, a reporter with The Washington Post, is among them.

“In line with orders from the Supreme National Security Council and in the national interest, four Iranian dual national prisoners have been released in a prisoner swap,” Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi was quoted as saying by Iranian news agencies.

The news of Rezaian’s release was broken by France 24, which cited its correspondent in Iran, the Associated Press, who cited own sources in Tehran, Mehr and Fars news agencies.

Rezaian, Tehran bureau chief for the Washington Post, was arrested in his home in the Iranian capital in July 2014 along with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, also a journalist, and two friends. He was charged with espionage in a closed-door trial in May 2015 and several months later sentenced to jail, though the final charges or the term length were not made public. His wife was released on bail in October 2015, and is facing a separate trial.

“We couldn’t be happier to hear the news that Jason Rezaian has been released from Evin Prison. Once we receive more details and can confirm Jason has safely left Iran, we will have more to share,” Frederick J. Ryan Jr., publisher of the Washington Post, said in a statement.

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