Monday, April 20, 2015

Lawyer: Washington Post reporter in Iran faces 4 charges

FILE - In this photo April 11, 2013 file photo, Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, smiles as he attends a presidential campaign of President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran. Lawyer Leila Ahsan, who represents Rezaian, told the Post on Monday, April 20, 2015 that the correspondent also faces charges of "conducting propaganda against the establishment," ''collaborating with hostile governments" and "collecting information about internal and foreign policy and providing them to individuals with malicious intent."(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A jailed Washington Post reporter in Iran faces four charges, including an espionage charge, his lawyer told the newspaper Monday.




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