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Iran Jails US Journo for Spying

Dual citizen slapped with 8-year sentence on 'baseless' spy charges

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 18, 2009 7:02 AM CDT

(Newser) – An Iranian-American journalist has been sentenced to 8 years in jail on spying charges that the US says are baseless, the BBC reports. Roxana Saberi, 31, was charged with buying alcohol without a license when she was first arrested in January, then with working without...   Read full story »

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