Religion and Politics

Jason Rezaian’s Year of Imprisonment in Iran

In The Atlantic, Adam Chandler writes on Jason Rezaian’s incarceration in Iran’s Evin prison, where he has been held since last July. “There was hope that the negotiations over a nuclear agreement with Iran that culminated with the signing of a deal in Vienna last week might yield progress for Rezaian and other Americans still locked up in the Islamic Republic,” Chandler writes. Instead, “Iran held the third closed-door court session of Rezaian’s trial, which is being presided over by a judge on a European Union blacklist for human-rights abuses.”

Read at The Atlantic

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