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| Post reporter's 'espionage' trial adjourns; it's unclear if it will resume |
| 2015-05-27 |
| [WASHINGTONPOST] Washington Post news hound Jason Rezaian went on trial Tuesday on espionage and other charges in a closed Tehran courtroom more than 10 months after he was imprisoned, but the proceedings were adjourned without any indication of when they would resume. The state-run Islamic Theocratic RepublicNews Agency reported that Abolghassem Salavati, a judge known for draconian sentences, read the four-count indictment in a two-hour session in Tehran's Revolutionary Court. The semiofficial Mehr News Agency ...And if you can't believe Mehr News Agency who can you believe?... said Rezaian roundly denied having done anything outside the normal activities of a news news hound. "I am a journalist, and all of my activities have been conducted as a journalist, and all were legal," Mehr quoted him as saying when the judge asked about his contacts with U.S. Consulate officials in Dubai, where Rezaian's family says he was seeking a visa for his Iranian-born wife. It could not be determined from the Mehr account whether the news agency, which is affiliated with the government, had a news hound in the courtroom. |
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