“An American-born journalist imprisoned in Iran for espionage is expected to be freed today after an Iranian appeals court cut her eight-year prison term to a suspended two-year sentence, her father said this morning.
Roxana Saberi, 32, “will be freed today, hopefully,” Reza Saberi, waiting outside the jail in Tehran, told CNN. “The papers are ready … it is just a matter of time, a couple of hours.”
The Iranian court of a appeals “reduced her jail sentence from eight years to two years of suspended sentence … and she will soon be free,” said her lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/05/11/2009-05-11_iran_to_free_jailed_american_journalist_roxana_saberi_after_appeal.html#
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About time.
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