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May 11, 2009

Iran frees jailed US journalist Roxana Saberi

By Sally Griffith

An American journalist labelled a spy and jailed in Iran has been freed today after an appeals court suspended her eight-year jail sentence.

Roxana Saberi, a US and Iranian citizen, was convicted last month of spying for the US.

She was arrested in Tehran in January and detained for reporting “without proper government-issued press credentials”.

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