The Washington
Post journalist JasonRezaian will appear in court in Iran next week accused of spying. His lawyer
Leila Ahsan said Rezaian’s wife, Yeganeh Salehi, also a journalist, and another
suspect, both of whom are on bail, had been summoned to the court on the same
day, next Tuesday.
“It seems
that all three will appear together,” Ahsan said. “If there is sufficient time
the trial will start but if not the proceedings will be dealt with in another
court session.”
Rezaian
was formally
charged last month
with espionage, collaboration with hostile governments, gathering classified
information and disseminating propaganda against Iran. He faces trial behind
closed doors in one of Iran’s revolutionary courts.
The 39-year-old Iranian-American
has been in custody for 10 months. He was detained in Tehran on 22 July last
year along with Salehi, who was then working for the National, an
English-language newspaper based in Abu Dhabi, and two others, one of whom had
worked as a photographer for the Post.
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