Jason Rezaian
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Jason Rezaian is the Director of Press Freedom Initiatives for The Washington Post. He served as The Post's correspondent in Tehran from 2012 to 2016, spending 544 days unjustly imprisoned by Iranian authorities until his release in January 2016. He is the author of Prisoner, a memoir of his time in captivity and the efforts to free him.
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On January 17, 2016, I was released from Evin Prison in Iran, where I had been detained for 544 days simply because I was a journalist for The Washington Post. It was a long and arduous ordeal for my family, friends, and colleagues—and for me. My return to freedom ended one of the longest-ever…
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