But it's fun to joke about performing sedition for your talent anyway! The journalist (and former pageant queen) was on The Daily Show last night to talk about her new memoir of captivity in Iran.
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Formerly detained journalist Roxana Saberi has announced that she is working on a memoir to be released in March 2010. The book will cover her arrest in January, her trial and sentencing, and eventual release. [AP]
As imprisoned journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee await negotiations that will hopefully secure their release from North Korea, friends and family speak out on their character, and formerly detained journalist Roxana Saberi offers some advice.
In non-depressing journalism news, released journalist Roxana Saberi will receive a Medal for Courage in Journalism from Northwestern University's journalism school. The medal "is a testament to Saberi's personal and journalistic resilience during an extremely difficult ordeal." [Editor & Publisher]
On Good Morning America, Roxana Saberi discussed her imprisonment in Iran, explaining that she only confessed to being a U.S. spy after being threatened with imprisonment and execution, and later she took back her confession. Diane Sawyer is mainly interested in the 32-year-old "American girl"'s tears. Clip at left.
Roxana Saberi met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday to thank her for pushing for her release from Iran's Evin prison. The state-run news network in Iran has pointed out that Saberi still hasn't thanked Iranian officials for freeing her.
[Washington, D.C., May 27. Image via Getty]
• American journalist Roxana Saberi arrived in Austria today and reunited with her parents after being released from prison in Iran. Her jail term was reduced to a two-year suspended sentence. •
Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is slated to be freed today, after Iranian courts reduced her sentence for espionage from eight years to two years suspended.
Roxana Saberi has officially ended her hunger strike, which she began on April 21st. An appeals court will hear her case next week. [NYT]
• An An Iranian appeals court will review journalist Roxana Saberi's conviction next week. The announcement came after Saberi's family agreed not to hire several prominent lawyers, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. •
• Roxana Saberi, the American journalist being held on charges of espionage in Iran, was hospitalized. Her ill health is the result of a hunger fast, which she intensified by refusing to drink water. •
• Michelle Obama is inspiring women the world over. "She shows women that it's OK to have dark skin and to not have a son. She's quite real to us," said Heather Ferreira of Mumbai.
Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist jailed in Iran for allegedly spying for the United States, has vowed to continue her hunger strike until she is released, though her father says she is "very weak."
