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There are updates and developments in the Roxana Saberi Iran espionage case
including new involvement by Ahmadinejad.
I posted several new comments and story links on Profco's April 18 blog on it. I did it that way rather than create a new post because I think it's helpful with a story like this to have more than one day's news developments in one place. If anyone has anything else to offer, please post it there.
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I put some more updates as a comment and reply on the thread here.
April 21, 2009 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Update: appeal on sentence next Tuesday, and the Shirin Ebadi team has been taken off the case by her father because the government reacted negatively:
NYT 5/7
Iranian Court Will Review Prison Term for Journalist
By NAZILA FATHI
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/world/middleeast/07iran.html?ref=todayspaper
May 7, 2009 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
In Turnabout, Iran Releases U.S. Journalist
By NAZILA FATHI and MARK LANDLER
May 12, 2009 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Turns out even she admits to things that suggest that there was reasonable cause for her arrest and interrogation:
Lawyer Says U.S. Reporter Had an Iranian Document
By NAZILA FATHI
and therefore her release is all the more a sign of the Iranians in control wanting to appear reasonable to the current U.S. government.
May 15, 2009 3:10 AM | Reply | Permalink