"This is a further important step for Serbia in realising its European perspective and equally crucial for international justice," a statement from the EU leadership said.
Walter Veltroni, who leads the Democrats of the Left, the party of Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, said the verdict must be "respected" but added that "the whole truth of that unjustifiable murder must come out and the guilty be brought to justice," a statement that clearly implied that all the trials and judges' verdicts so far had not.
Three days after Mr Rezaian and his colleagues were taken, Tehran's chief justice issued a statement suggesting espionage.
In his ruling, the justice cited a statement from the state education commissioner, Richard P. Mills, in which Mr. Mills said even he did not fully understand the state aid formula.
The minister of justice released a statement of under 100 words, claiming the court had "ruled that the government is not required to ask for accused terrorist Omar Khadr's return to Canada".
The investigative journalist and self-styled "king of the sting" was charged, with his driver Alan Smith, 67, with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over a statement Smith made to police before the former N-Dubz singer's 2014 trial for allegedly helping supply cocaine to Mahmood.
The retiring justice, in a statement, called his service "the greatest honor and privilege".
Aside from the accountant joke, Asians were also left out of the conversation Sunday, a fact which "exposed one of the failings of how we talk about race in America: race relations are not a black-white binary," said Mee Moua, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice, in a statement Monday to the Associated Press.
In Germany, Parekh observes, banning Holocaust denial is "part of reparative justice, a public statement of the country's acknowledgment of and apology for its past, a way of fighting neo-Nazi trends in German society".
On Tuesday night, the US justice department issued a statement criticising the home secretary's move.
The chief justice said in a statement she merely flagged the issue and did not voice an opinion.
