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Ban to Iran: Free the Journalists, Political Prisoners

Foreign Policy, 19 Sep 2014 – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has directly appealed to Iran to release the Washington Post’s Iranian-American reporter, Jason Rezaian, and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, Ban told Foreign Policy in an interview on Friday.
Ban said that he brought up the case of the two detained journalists in a closed-door meeting Thursday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. Ban urged Zarif not only to release the two reporters, but also to free other political prisoners in Iranian jails.
“Why don’t you release them?” he recalled asking the Iranian diplomat, during an interview in his 38th-floor office atop the U.N. headquarters building. “I raised this issue of the two persons who are still in prison and expressed my serious concern about human rights issues, particularly those people, and urged their government to release all remaining political prisoners.”

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