November 22, 2019
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday ordered Iran to pay $180 million in damages to a former Washington Post reporter who spent 18 months in an Iranian prison, calling Iran's conduct "outrageous, deserving of punishment and surely in need of deterrence."
October 03, 2016
A Washington Post reporter who spent 18 months in an Iranian prison sued the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Monday in Washington, D.C., federal court under the terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.