Roxana Saberi speaks about her new book in Palo Alto, California
Copies of the book of "Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran" written by Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi wait to be signed by the author in Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto, California on April 21, 2010. UPI/Mohammad Kheirkhah
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TEHRAN, June 24 (UPI) -- Western journalists are among the reporters being detained in Iran following a government crackdown on post-election coverage, news organizations reported.
WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor after being found guilty of the "grave crime" of illegally crossing into North Korea. Hard labor in the North Korean prison system could easily be tantamount to a death sentence, but it seems at least possible that the increasingly unpredictable regime in Pyongyang may be prepared to let them go in return for major concessions from the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama.
VIENNA, May 15 (UPI) -- U.S. free-lance journalist Roxana Saberi arrived in Vienna Friday, following her release from a Tehran prison where she was held for spying.
TEHRAN, May 11 (UPI) -- U.S. free-lance journalist Roxana Saberi was released from a Tehran prison Monday, her attorney said.
TEHRAN, May 10 (UPI) -- The appeals process began Sunday for a U.S. journalist jailed in Iran on charges of being a spy, her father told CNN.
TEHRAN, May 9 (UPI) -- Roxana Saberi's lawyer says he's optimistic the jailed U.S.-Iranian reporter will be acquitted after an appeal to be heard Sunday in Tehran.
TEHRAN, May 6 (UPI) -- An Iranian appeals court will review the espionage conviction of imprisoned U.S. free-lance journalist Roxana Saberi next week, a judiciary spokesman said.
TEHRAN, May 5 (UPI) -- U.S. journalist Roxana Saberi, on a hunger strike in an Iran prison to protest her spying conviction, was hospitalized to get nourishment, her father said.
PARIS, April 28 (UPI) -- Reporters Without Borders members began a hunger strike in Paris Tuesday for the Iranian-American journalist sentenced to prison in Iran on spying charges.
CHICAGO, April 26 (UPI) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he will try to get to Iran in the near future to secure the release of a jailed U.S. journalist.
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