Author: |Posted: 3:22 pm on 11/05/09
Category: World News Blog
It’s being reported that Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi has been, or is to be, freed from prison. Ms Saberi was arrested in Iran in January, apparently for buying wine, and later sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage.
Our international editor, Lindsey Hilsum, has blogged on the case several times, including her conversations with Roxana’s father, Reza Saberi, with Roxana’s friends, and most recently read more
Author: |Posted: 6:21 pm on 24/04/09
Category: World News Blog
The case of Roxana Saberi, the American/Iranian journalist jailed on a spurious charge of espionage in Tehran, has belatedly received quite a lot of media attention here and in the USA (my previous blog posts on the case are here).
So what about Laura Ling and Euna Lee, American reporters arrested by North Korean guards on the Chinese border on 17 March? read more
Author: |Posted: 5:58 pm on 20/04/09
Category: World News Blog
I have just managed to get through to journalist Roxana Saberi’s father, Reza, on the phone in Tehran.
He and her mother, Akiko, have run the gamut of emotions these last three days – from despair on Saturday when their daughter was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for espionage, to hope today, after the chief of the judiciary ordered a full investigation into her case.
His intervention comes a day after Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said Roxana should be given the right to defend herself on appeal. read more
Author: |Posted: 5:29 pm on 14/04/09
Category: World News Blog
Friends of Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist imprisoned in Tehran, are getting increasingly worried. She’s now been charged with spying – the classic allegation made by paranoid governments against foreign reporters.
Today, I spoke to Henry Newman, a friend who studied with her at the Dehkhoda Institute at the University of Tehran in 2003.
“It’s horrific for her and her family,” he said. read more
Author: |Posted: 6:05 pm on 16/03/09
Category: World News Blog
As you’re reading this, a young Iranian-American journalist called Roxana Saberi is alone in Evin prison in Tehran, waiting to find out her fate.
I met Roxana Saberi a few years ago – dynamic and full of enthusiasm, she was just the kind of person who wouldn’t give up despite the myriad obstacles the Iranian government likes to cast in the path of any reporter. read more
