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Iran: Journalist sentenced to 8 years prison

Saturday, April 18th, 2009 @ 15:52 UTC

by Hamid Tehrani

Countries:: Iran, U.S.A.
Topics:: Governance, Human Rights, International Relations

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Calibor2000, an Iranian blogger, writes [fa] that Iranian government sentenced Roxana Saberi, American-Iranian journalist to 8 years prison in order to use her for a prisoner swap deal.

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[...] President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian jailed blogger and Roxana Saberi, an American-Iranian journalist who was sentenced to 8 years of prison, must have right of defense. [...]

# 2009-04-19 at 10:45 am
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# 2009-04-19 at 14:42 pm
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[...] giudizio. La Corte Islamica ha già emesso la sentenza contro la giornalista statunitense-iraniana Roxana Saberi [in], condannandola a 8 anni di carcere per spionaggio. Hossein Derakhshan [in], blogger iraniano, [...]

# 2009-04-19 at 20:57 pm