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Iran releases UAE journalist, American husband still in jail

DUBAI - Iran has released an Iranian journalist on bail after more than two months held without charge, but her husband, a dual nationality Iranian-American who reports for the Washington Post, remains in jail, her family said on Monday.

 

Yeganeh Salehi, Tehran correspondent for the United Arab Emirates English language newspaper, The National, was freed last week.

 

"She is in good health," one relative, who asked not to be named, told Reuters by telephone from Tehran. The relatives did not provide anymore details.

 

Salehi and her husband Jason Rezaian were picked up from their home in Tehran on July 22 and detained.

 


פרסום ראשון: 10.06.14, 12:50