The U.S. prisoners freed by Iran

January 17, 2016 at 12:03AM
FILE - In this April 11, 2013 file photo, Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, smiles as he attends a presidential campaign of President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran. Iran state television has reported that the government has released several dual-national prisoners. The Associated Press has confirmed that three of them were Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati and pastor Saeed Abedini. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Rezaian (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Prisoners freed by Iran

• Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian was detained in July 2014 and later convicted of espionage and other crimes.

• Amir Hekmati, from Flint, Mich., is a former U.S. Marine who was arrested on spying charges in 2011 while visiting his grandmother. In 2012, Iran sentenced him to death. The sentence was later overturned.

• Saeed Abedini, from Boise, Idaho, is a pastor who was arrested in 2012. He was convicted of endangering national security by holding religious services.

• Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, about whom no information was available.

• Matthew Trevithick of Hingham, Mass., was released after being detained for 40 days. He was not part of the prisoner swap.

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FILE - In this June 2, 2015 file photo, Naghmeh Abedini holds a necklace with a photograph of her husband, Saeed Abedini, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Iran state television has reported that the government has released several dual-national prisoners. The Associated Press has confirmed that three of them were Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati and pastor Saeed Abedini. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Abedini (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 video frame grab image made from the Iranian broadcaster IRIB TV, U.S. citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, accused by Iran of spying for the CIA, sits in Tehran's revolutionary court, in Iran. Iran state television has reported that the government has released several dual-national prisoners. The Associated Press has confirmed that three of them were Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati and pastor Saeed Abedini. (AP Photo/IRIB, F
Hekmati (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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