The American-Iranian journalist Jason Rezaian should be released in the coming weeks. Iran correspondent for the Washington Post, he was arrested there over three months and has been held without charges against him have been identified. Interviewed by euronews, Mohammed Javad Larijani, head of Iran's Council of Human Rights, gave a sign of hope to the family of the journalist.
euronews: "Your brother is the head of the judiciary. It has the power to recommend to the Supreme Leader that person is pardoned. What are the chances that citizen to be released in the coming days? "
Larijani: "Grace does not work like that. It must follow rules and procedures. First, we must go after lawsuits and maybe the court will assume and abandon the charges, and so all over. If he is charged, then the procedure for the grace to be engaged. It will go through this procedure. It is not automatically. "
euronews: "So in a week or two? "
Larijani: "I would say that it will take less than a month. "
euronews: "In the process reaches its end. "
Larijani: "Yes."
An interview to see in its entirety from Friday 8:45 p.m. Central European Time on our airwaves and on the website euronews.
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