Monday, May 11, 2009

Roxana Saberi Released!!! {UpDated: More Breaking News at time}

This UpDate has nothing to do with the release but it's just hitting:

With the Good comes the Really Bad!

Fragging!!

Another Deja-Vu 'Nam Hits the Present Occupations!!!

U.S. service member kills 4 fellow troops in Iraq - GI in custody after killing 5 at Iraq ‘stress clinic’
Contrary to earlier reports, military says soldier did not kill self after attack



With a Report from McClatchy on the shooting

The Original News On Roxana

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According to Agenzia Giornalistica Italia with this:

IRAN: JOURNALIST ROXANA SABERI RELEASED
AGI) - Teheran, 11 May - Roxana Saberi has been released.

AGI had a report up about an hour ago that she to be released in a couple of hours, the one above is the second one, the most recent!

And This just posted:
Saberi's Free: Are U.S.-Iranian Relations Truly Thawing?

5min. ago: Lawyer: US reporter leaves jail in Iran
Abdolsamad Khorramshahi says Roxana Saberi is "now out of jail."


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Just heard a quick report on NPR that her father is traveling to Iran to be there when she is released to bring her home!!

UpDate 3:

From the BBC: Fathers joy at Saberi release with Video link!

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U.S. Reporter Jailed in Iran to Soon Be Freed

An Iranian appeals court reduced the eight-year jail sentence for Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi on Monday to a suspended two-year term and she will soon be freed, her defense lawyer told Reuters.


Here's one from the Times Online with a bit more meat in the report than the real quick blurb.

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Iranian authorities have released freelance journalist Roxana Saberi after a court reduced her sentence to a two-year suspended term.
Roxana Saberi released from Tehran jail

Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been convicted of involvement in acts of espionage, has been released from Tehran's Evin prison.

The release came just one day after a Tehran court of appeals reduced her eight-year jail sentence to a two-year suspended term, Press TV's correspondent reported on Monday.

Saberi, 32, is a freelance journalist who was initially detained in late January for working in Iran after her press credentials had expired.

She was later sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of spying for the government of the United States.

However, earlier on Sunday Saberi's lawyer expressed optimism about the verdict after her case was heard in a Tehran court of appeals.........

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