Roxana Saberi
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| Born | Roxana Saberi April 26, 1977 Belleville, New Jersey, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Concordia College (B.A.) Northwestern University (M.A.) Hughes Hall, Cambridge (M.A.) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, translator, author | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable credit(s) | Miss North Dakota, 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent(s) | Mr. Reza Saberi (Iran) Ms. Akiko Saberi (Japan) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Roxana Saberi (born April 26, 1977) is an American journalist who works as a correspondent for CBS News. In 2009, she was held prisoner in Iran's Evin Prison for 101 days under accusations of espionage. She subsequently wrote a book about the experience.
On April 8, 2009, the Iranian government charged Saberi with espionage, which she denied. She was subsequently convicted and 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.