{"id":2118,"date":"2009-05-11T07:12:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2009-05-11T07:12:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:12:23","slug":"nyt-iran-releases-journalist-convicted-of-spying-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/nyt-iran-releases-journalist-convicted-of-spying-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Iran Releases Journalist Convicted of Spying for U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/12\/world\/middleeast\/12iran.html?ref=global-home&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;pagewanted=print\">NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>May 12, 2009<br \/>\nIran Releases Journalist Convicted of Spying for U.S.<\/p>\n<p>By NAZILA FATHI<br \/>\nThe New York Times<\/p>\n<p>TEHRAN\u2014 An Iranian-American journalist who was sentenced to eight years of jail on spying charges for Washington was released Monday after an appeal court reduced the sentence, her lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Saleh Nikbakht, one of the two lawyers who defended Roxana Saberi in an appeal hearing on Sunday, said the court turned down the original jail term and issued a two-year suspended prison term in its place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe verdict was given to me in person today,\u201d Mr. Nikbakht said. \u201cThe appeals court has accepted our defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Saberi had been held in Evin prison since January. The court ruling meant that she can leave the country immediately if she decides to, Mr. Nikbakht said as he awaited her release with Ms. Saberi\u2019s parents, who live in Fargo, North Dakota, another lawyer for Ms. Saberi, and a crowd of journalists and photographers.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nikbakht gave no further details about her release or her plans. But her father, Reza Saberi, told The Associated Press: \u201cIn the next few days, we will make travel plans to return home.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: May 12, 2009 Iran Releases Journalist Convicted of Spying for U.S. By NAZILA FATHI The New York Times TEHRAN\u2014 An Iranian-American journalist who was sentenced to eight years of jail on spying charges for Washington was released Monday after an appeal court reduced the sentence, her lawyer said. Saleh Nikbakht, one of the two lawyers who defended Roxana Saberi in an appeal hearing on Sunday, said the court turned down the original jail term and issued a two-year suspended&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96,103,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-iran","category-journalism","category-roxana-saberi","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-ya","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}