The reporter who has been detained in Iran for more than four months has been charged with “unknown crimes” by a Tehran judge, the journalist’s family said in a statement on Sunday, NBC News reported.
The Washington Post on Sunday first reported that Jason Rezaian, the newspaper’s bureau chief in Tehran since 2012 and a dual U.S.-Iranian national, was charged in his first court appearance Saturday.
In a statement provided to NBC News, Rezaian’s family said it was “deeply saddened to confirm that, after being held in solitary confinement without charge for 137 days, Jason Rezaian was charged with unknown crimes by the government of Iran.”
NBC contributed to this story.
