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Washington Post Petitions UN for Release of Reporter Jailed by Iran
(New York Times) Rick Gladstone - The Washington Post on Wednesday filed an urgent petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, accusing Iranian authorities of "numerous violations of international law" in their imprisonment and treatment of Jason Rezaian, the newspaper's Tehran correspondent. Rezaian, 36, who has been incarcerated in Iran for over a year, appears to be in the final phase of a secretive trial in a Tehran Revolutionary Court on charges including espionage. President Obama and both houses of Congress have called on Iran to release Rezaian and two other Americans.