Jason Rezaian

Jason Rezaian is the director of press freedom initiatives at The Washington Post and chair of the advisory board for the Press Freedom Center at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. he previously wrote for the Post’s Global Opinions section and from 2012 to 2016, he served as the paper’s correspondent in Tehran. In July 2014, he was arrested by Iranian authorities and imprisoned until his release in January 2016. Rezaian’s memoir, “Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison,” was published in 2019 and he adapted the book as a nine-episode podcast. He is currently the co-executive director of the Commission on Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.