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U.S. journalist jailed for eight years for spying in Iran walks free... into her mother's waiting arms

By Cole2 on | From islamizationwatch.blogspot.com
Roxana appears to break down as her mother pulls her close This is the emotional moment a U.S.-born journalist was reunited with her mother as she walked free from an Iranian court that had overturned her eight-year jail sentence for spying. Roxana Saberi, 32, had been convicted of spying for the U.S. in Iran and sentenced to eight years behind bars. But an Iranian appeal court cut the former Miss North Dakota's sentence to a suspended two-year term - a move welcomed by Barack Obama as a...Read Full Story

How US Journalist Roxana Saberi's image of Iran came crahing in [Video GMA & VOA]

By Cole2 on | From islamizationwatch.blogspot.com
Perhaps Roxana should realize this is not the right time - the Iran of her father's time - is at best suppressed - at worst almost forgotten. It is an Islamic police state. A place which enforces the religious views of the few. And those few - want to enforce their view on the world - under their 'Islamic Revolution'. What can she tell us - that some people in Iran object to this. These people with little power - some of whom sat in prison next to her. Then we will believe her. But Iran is...Read Full Story

Beauty Queen and Journalist Roxana Saberi Sets Free from Prison

By karlzada on | From beautyinpageants.blogspot.com
The controversial former beauty queen and American journalist, Roxana Saberi has been freed from prison after four months in a Tehran prison and two weeks of hunger strike. She was accused of spying for a "hostile" nation (Iran's words), the United States of America. The news comes after the decision of an Iranian appeals court to reduce her original eight-year sentence for spying. Her lawyer says she shed tears of relief at the news. Friends and supporters of jailed U.S.-Iranian...Read Full Story

Two Christian Women, Converts From Islam Held Without Charge in Iran's Notorious Evin Prison

By Cole2 on | From islamizationwatch.blogspot.com
( Enlarge ) * Two Christian women were arrested March 5 by Iranian security forces accused of being “anti-government activists,” * Iran holds the No. 3 spot in a list of countries with the world’s worst persecution of Christians. [Iran might think it has to try harder - to reach #1 - as not to be outdone in the Islamic world] * The Iranian Parliament gave its initial approval last year to a bill that would punish apostasy with death. While people rejoice in the release of U.S.-born journalist...Read Full Story

US journalists to go on trial in N.Korea

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Two US women journalists will go on trial in North Korea at 3 pm (0600 GMT) Thursday, state media reported, on charges that could send them to a labour camp. TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained by North Korean border guards on March 17 while researching a story about refugees fleeing the hardline communist state. Pyongyang previously said they would face trial for "hostile acts" and illegally entering the country. The Korean Central News Agency said Thursday that the two would...Read Full Story
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Three U.S. backpackers jailed in Iran as spies in 2009 were freed in 2010 and 2011 in what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called a humanitarian gesture. Iranian-American Roxana Saberi, sentenced to eight years for spying in 2009, was freed after 100 days.  
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