article_snippet.sent: Jason Rezaian Jason Rezaian has been detained in Iran for eight months and faces trial for 'security charges' unspecified by Iran .
article_snippet.sent: Iranian officials announced in January that Jason Rezaian, who is the Post's Tehran bureau chief, would stand trial before the country's Revolutionary Court to face 'security charges', but did not elaborate what 'security charges' unspecified by the government were.
article_snippet.sent: Seven months have passed without Iranian legal authorities publicly outlining the allegations against Jason,' executive editor Martin Baron said. '
article_snippet.sent: Leila Ahsan, Rezaian's lawyer, would not comment on the specific charges that have been brought against Leila Ahsan, Rezaian's lawyer client but said Leila Ahsan, Rezaian's lawyer has studied the text of the indictment and will brief her client family in the upcoming days.
article_snippet.sent: All were released except for American-born Rezaian, who  has dual citizenship that is not recognized by Iran.
article_snippet.sent: Rezaian was not allowed to hire a lawyer until seven months after a lawyer was first arrested.
article_snippet.sent: a lawyer family was also not permitted from hiring Masoud Shafiei, who was His family first choice for Rezaian's attorney because of a lawyer experience with representing imprisoned foreigners and dual citizens.
article_snippet.sent: Shafiei was forbidden from taking the case by the judiciary for unspecified reasons, according to the New York Times.
article_snippet.sent: Last month President Barack Obama called on the Iranian government to immediately release Rezaian as well as two other detained Americans, Saeed Abedini and Amir Hekmati.
highlights_snippet.sent: Government officials said in January that Rezaian, 39, would stand trial for unspecified 'security charges'
  Jason Rezaian was taken from unspecified 'security charges'
  Rezaian Tehran home on July 22 and was not permitted to hire a lawyer until last month .