Iranian officials on Monday held the third closed-door hearing in the trial of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian.
Outside the courthouse, Mary Rezaian, Jason's mother, told reporters that her son wishes he could be covering the Iran nuclear talks, what she called "this wonderful story about what's been happening between Iran and the rest of the world."
"But, unfortunately, he has been in prison for the past year," she continued. As she spoke to the cameras, Yeganeh Salehi, Jason's wife, began to cry behind her.
"She is not able to speak to the press. So, I'm here speaking for both of them," Rezaian said, reaching behind her to console Salehi. Salehi, a journalist with the UAE–based newspaper The National, was also arrested last year but was released in October.
Monday's hearing, which Rezaian's lawyer is not allowed to discuss in public, was the first movement in Rezaian's trial in nearly a month. Before the first session in May, Rezaian spent months imprisoned with no information on the charges against him.
