US-Iranian journalist jailed for eight years in Tehran for spying

May 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who was held for more than three months in a Tehran prison after being convicted of spying, has left the Iranian capital after her release early this week, her employer said. Saberi departed Thursday with her parents for Austria and they plan to soon return to the US, US National Public Radio reported, citing a friend travelling with the family.

May 11th, 2009 TEHRAN - After more than three months in jail for allegedly spying for the US, Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi was released Monday from Tehran's Evin prison. The release came after the appeal court revised the lower court's eight-year jail sentence and turned it into a two-year suspended term.

May 11th, 2009 Lawyer: US reporter leaves jail in IranTEHRAN, Iran — A lawyer for a U.S. journalist jailed in Iran says she has been freed from prison after an appeals court suspended her eight-year jail sentence.

May 11th, 2009 Lawyer: Iran to free jailed American journalistTEHRAN, Iran — A lawyer for a jailed U.S. journalist says she could be freed soon after an Iranian appeals court suspended her prison term.

May 11th, 2009 Clinton welcomes Iran's release of US journalistWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is welcoming the release of an American journalist who had been jailed in Iran for four months. Clinton told reporters at the State Department that the Obama administration disputes the spying charges against 32-year-old Roxanna Saberi and objects to the verdict rendered against her by an Iranian court.

May 11th, 2009 US reporter leaves jail in Iran, lawyer saysTEHRAN, Iran — A lawyer for a U.S. journalist jailed in Iran says she has been freed from prison after an appeals court suspended her eight-year jail sentence.

May 3rd, 2009 TEHRAN - Japan called on Iran to have more transparency in the case of jailed Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, whose mother is Japanese, informed sources in Tehran said Sunday. Visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone told Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting Saturday that although Tokyo respected the judiciary's independence but still expected more transparency in the Saberi case.

April 28th, 2009 French group urges Iran to free US journalistPARIS — More than a dozen people in Paris have launched a hunger strike in support of an American journalist who is in jail in Tehran. The journalist, Roxana Saberi, has herself been on a hunger strike for a week.

April 25th, 2009 US journalist jailed in Iran on hunger strikeTEHRAN, Iran — The father of an American journalist who has been convicted of spying in Iran says she has gone on a hunger strike to protest her imprisonment. Reza Saberi has told the Associated Press that "she went on a hunger strike Tuesday to protest her imprisonment.

April 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is "deeply disappointed" by Iran's sentencing of a US journalist, the White House has said. An Iranian court has held Iranian-American freelancer Roxana Saberi guilty of spying, and awarded her an eight-year jail term.

April 19th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday called for 'fairness' for the Iranian-American journalist who has been sentenced to eight years in prison by a court here on charges of espionage. In a letter to prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi, Ahmadinejad advised him 'to precisely handle the case, observe administration of justice and ensure the accused can freely and legally defend herself', IRNA reported.

April 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON/TEHRAN - The US expressed deep concern Saturday over an eight-year prison sentence imposed by the Iranian judiciary on Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi for spying. 'I am deeply disappointed,' Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.

April 18th, 2009 TEHRAN - The Iranian judiciary issued an eight-year prison term for an Iranian-American journalist on charges of spying for the US, her lawyer told reporters here Saturday. The court has not yet issued any official statement and no further details were available.

April 14th, 2009 TEHRAN - An Iranian-American journalist accused of spying in Iran stood the first session of her trial this week, a judiciary spokesman told a news conference here Tuesday. The first trial of Roxana Saberi was carried out behind closed doors here Monday, Ali Jamshidi was quoted by ISNA news agency as saying.

March 4th, 2009 TEHRAN - A US freelance journalist with Iranian roots has been arrested in Tehran, an Iranian judicial spokesman said Tuesday. The Iranian parents of Roxana Saberi, 31, earlier told US media that their daughter was detained Jan 31 for buying a bottle of wine.