Daniel Flitton, Lowy Institute The Interpreter
Jason Rezaian was correspondent for the Washington Post in Iran from 2012 to 2016 – only for more than 18 months of that time, he was unjustly held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, in the same wing where Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert is presently locked away on accusations of espionage. A new edition of Rezaian’s book detailing his ordeal – Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison – will be released this week, and I asked him from Washington, where he is now back working for the Post, what more can be done to bring Moore-Gilbert home. Read more.