Iran says Washington Post reporter Rezaian sentenced to prison Read more at Reutershttp://www.reuter
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Source: Thomson-Reuters
An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to a prison term, the state news agency said on Sunday quoting a judiciary spokesman, a case that is a sensitive issue in contentious U.S.-Iranian relations.
The length of the prison term was not specified. "Serving a jail term is in Jason Rezaian's sentence but I cannot give details," judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei told a weekly news conference in Tehran, according to IRNA.
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters he was aware of the IRNA report but could not independently confirm it. It was not clear why Iran has not given details of the ruling against the 39-year-old Rezaian, who Iranian prosecutors accused of espionage.
The foreign editor of the Washington Post, Douglas Jehl, said the newspaper was aware of the reports but had no additional information.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/23/us-iran-usa-trial-idUSKBN0TB0GG20151123#tkVilUaYlWWsuRbB.97
I was expecting the usual suspects to be in an outrage over this, but Greenwald was unavailable for comment, and Snowden seems to have vanished off the face of the Earth -- Hasn't tweeted since 12 November...
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