1. Jason Rezaian is an Iranian-American journalist who served as Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post.
14 Facts About Jason Rezaian
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Jason Rezaian was convicted of espionage in a closed-door trial in Iran in 2015.
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Jason Rezaian was born March 15,1976, and raised in Marin County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Jason Rezaian attended Wheaton Central High School in Wheaton, Illinois, in his freshman and sophomore years from 1990 to 1992, before transferring to Marin Academy in San Rafael, California, where he got his high school diploma.
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Jason Rezaian had been based in Iran as a journalist since 2009.
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Jason Rezaian's wife, Yeganeh Salehi, is an Iranian citizen who is a correspondent for The National, a newspaper based in the United Arab Emirates.
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Jason Rezaian was the 2016 recipient of the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Jason Rezaian wrote a book, Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison, published in January 2019, detailing his experience in captivity in Iran.
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On January 15,2015, an Iranian prosecutor told state media that Jason Rezaian would stand trial in Iran in a Revolutionary Court on unspecified charges.
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Jason Rezaian's trial began on May 26,2015 at Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court.
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Jason Rezaian is being used by a regime which, since 1979, has often exchanged foreign detainees for Iranian agents held in other countries.
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Jason Rezaian's case was a centerpiece of the Press Uncuffed campaign by Dana Priest and her students at the Philip Merrill School of Journalism at the University of Maryland in collaboration with the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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States that it is US policy that: the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran should immediately release Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati, and Jason Rezaian, and cooperate with the US government to locate and return Robert Levinson; and the US government should undertake every effort using every diplomatic tool at its disposal to secure their release.
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On January 16,2016, it was announced that Jason Rezaian had been released from Iran along with three other United States prisoners in exchange of the release of seven Iranian prisoners and the drop of charges against fourteen other Iranians.