Monday, May 4, 2009

Iranian journalist convicted in hospitalized to the prison hospital.

Convicted of spying for the United States Iranian journalist Roxana Saber hospitalized in the prison hospital in Tehran. Roxana States deteriorated during declared it a dry hunger strike. She will be discharged from hospital a day after the agreed to water, reports The Associated Press.
Remember, the Iranian journalist with American citizenship Roxana Saber was arrested in Iran in January 2009 on charges of buying alcohol. Since then she has been charged with journalist without accreditation, and then - of spying for the United States.
In April 2009, Saber was sentenced to eight years in prison for spying, guilty Roxana does not recognize. May 2, after the protests of journalists and public officials of the United States, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has promised to reconsider the case of journalist "in accordance with the norms of justice as well as with the principles of humanity and Islamic humanity."
Application of this Mottaki made at a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone of Japan, recalled that his mother was born journalist convicted of Japan.
Note also that the Iranian authorities earlier denied that Roxana Saber declared a hunger strike on 20 April. Perhaps the change in the position of the authorities connected with the statement of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called in May, the judicial authorities of the journalist to provide the full right to defend himself.

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