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12 May 2009 09:27

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U.S., World: Roxana Saberi is just happy to be out of prison

  • I am very happy that I have been released and reunited with my father and mother. I am very grateful to all the people who knew me or didn’t know me and helped for my release. I don’t have any specific plans for the time being. I want to stay with my parents.
  • Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi • In short remarks after getting released yesterday. Saberi could have faced eight years in jail on espionage charges in Iran but instead got out after about a month. Let’s hope she enjoys going home to the U.S. • source
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11 May 2009 08:56

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World: Jailed journalist Roxana Saberi to be set free by Iran today

  • As I understood it, she is free to leave Iran. They explained me that the two years were conditional and would not be carried out if she would not commit any crimes in the coming five years.
  • Attorney Abdolfattah Khorramshai • Regarding news that Roxana Saberi’s sentence was reduced from eight years to a two-year suspended sentence. Saberi’s plight – a young journalist who was arrested for espionage – had garnered significant international attention. She remains banned from working as a reporter in Iran for five years, but there is no word if she’ll return to the U.S. with her parents, who have remained in Iran to bring attention to her case. • source
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25 Apr 2009 10:18

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U.S., World: Roxana Saberi, the jailed U.S. journo in Iran, is on a hunger strike

  • She will keep it up until she’s freed, her dad says. Saberi, a freelance journalist convicted of espionage, told her rather Reza Saberi in a short phone call that she had been on a hunger strike since Tuesday and would keep it up until she was released. Saberi says the call was short and that “she did not give us the chance to tell her not to do it.” Saberi’s arrest and conviction has met with worldwide criticism of Iran. source
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18 Apr 2009 11:34

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U.S., World: Roxana Saberi’s harsh sentence blindsided her family

  • We are very shocked and we were not expecting it. We were hoping for six months and then clemency.
  • Reza Saberi • Father of Roxana Saberi, on the harsh sentence she got from an Iranian court for spying. She could have gotten the death penalty. • source
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18 Apr 2009 11:16

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U.S., World: Roxana Saberi faces the wrath of an Iranian court

  • 8 years in prison for the Iranian-American journalist on spying charges source
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