Roxana Saberi, speaking at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Journalism and Communication, in Los Angeles, California Topics: Journalist Tags: Roxana Saberi View |
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Roxana Saberi (lang-fa?????? ?????) (born April 26, 1977) is an American journalist who was arrested in Iran in January 2009. On April 8, 2009, the Iranian government charged Saberi with espionage, which she denied. She was subsequently sentenced to an eight-year prison term. An appeals court reduced the charge against her from espionage to possessing classified information, a charge which she also denied, and reduced her eight-year prison term to a two-year suspended sentence. She was released on May 11, 2009.
Birth Name: Roxana Saberi
Date of birth: 1977-04-26
Birth Location: Belleville, New Jersey, Belleville, New Jersey, United States
Education: Concordia College (Concordia College (Minnesota)),Northwestern University,Cambridge University
Occupation: Journalist Translator
Gender: Female
Family: Father: Reza Saberi (Iran),Mother: Akiko Saberi (Japan)
Ethnicity: Iranian (Iranian people)-Japanese (Japanese people) American (United States)
Credits: Miss North Dakota, 1997