US journalist leaves jail in Iran after court suspends her prison sentence, lawyer says

June 21st, 2009 Northwestern honors journalist freed from IranEVANSTON, Ill. — Journalist Roxana Saberi, released from prison in Iran last month, has been honored by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

May 30th, 2009 Journalist freed from Iran welcomed homeFARGO, N.D. — Journalist Roxana Saberi, released from prison in Iran earlier this month, is back in North Dakota.

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: 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 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 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 TEHRAN - Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is to be released, Iranian news agency ISNA reported Monday quoting her lawyer. Saberi's lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said the appeal court Sunday dismissed the primary court ruling on charges of espionage against Saberi and issued the verdict on charges of disruption of national security.

May 11th, 2009 White House praises release of journalist in IranWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is praising the release of American journalist Roxana Saberi from a jail in Iran. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that the administration continues to stress that Saberi was wrongly accused, "but we welcome this humanitarian gesture." The 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen was released Monday after four months in jail.

May 11th, 2009 US journalist freed by Iran, reunites with parentsTEHRAN, Iran — An American journalist jailed for five months in Iran was freed Monday and reunited with her parents after an appeals court suspended her eight-year prison sentence on charges of spying for the U.S. Roxana Saberi, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, met her parents outside Evin prison Monday evening after the court cut her jail term to a two-year suspended sentence, her lawyers said.

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 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 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 18th, 2009 TEHRAN - An American-Iranian journalist has been jailed for eight years in Tehran after being accused of spying for the United States. er lawyer and family revealed that 31-year-old Roxana Saberi had been convicted and sentenced.