Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent unjustly imprisoned in Iran, is now free as part of President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry’s scheme to trade cash and prisoners for hostages. While he and his family — and, indeed, all Americans — can celebrate his freedom, his case raises a number of questions regarding journalistic ethics which should not simply be swept under the rug because of the injustice of his arrest and imprisonment, and policy disputes about the manner of his and other hostages’ release.
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