Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian convicted by Iranian court

October 12, 2015 13:54

Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian has been convicted in a case that included espionage and propaganda charges, according to Iranian reports. A verdict against the American-Iranian journalist had been reached over the weekend, but was not confirmed until Monday when a state TV program spoke with Chief Justice of Iran officials.

"He has been convicted, but I don't have the verdict's details," the government's judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi said. The conviction follows Rezaian's July 2014 arrest accusing him of spying on the Iranian government and a closed-door trial that ended in August.

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