Word: saberi
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...after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded Saberi's release, an Iranian prosecutor told the Iranian Student News Agency that Ms. Saberi would be released from custody ''in the next few days...
After two weeks of self-starvation, Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi ended her hunger strike at Tehran's Evin prison May 4 following news that an appeals hearing would be held next week regarding the 8-year prison sentence handed down by Iran's Revolutionary Court, which found her guilty of spying for the United States. Saberi, who was briefly hospitalized after she refused to drink water, has been imprisoned since January, when she was reportedly arrested in the nation's capital for trying to purchase a bottle of wine (possession of alcohol is illegal in Iran). Since her April...
...Saberi entered the Miss North Dakota beauty pageant at the urging of a college instructor. She won, and became one of the final 10 contestants in that year's Miss America Pageant - the only finalist of Asian descent and the first recipient of the pageant's "Scholar Award...
...While at Northwestern University, she interviewed the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who recently said he applied for an Iranian visa so he could visit Saberi in prison. Human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, Iran's Nobel Peace Prize laurate, also agreed to join Saberi's cause as a defense attorney...
...Moved to Iran in 2003, where she worked as a freelance journalist for the BBC, Fox News and National Public Radio. After her arrest, her father, Reza Saberi, told the AP she had been working on a book about the culture and people of Iran, and had hoped to finish it and return...