You can certainly understand the Washington Post standing up for one of its own. And its editors do so eloquently in an editorial this morning that denounces Iran's absurd "conviction" of Post reporter Jason Rezaian - a development they now say occurred two months ago even as they decline to specify the so-called charges on which Rezaian has been "convicted."
Rezaian has now been held hostage by the Iranian government longer than the American hostages of the Carter era, and the Post lays bare just how ludicrous this whole thing is: