Roxana Saberi's 100 Days In An Iranian Prison for an NPR interview with her on her memoir, Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran and on the other prisoners she met while she was there.
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Roxana Saberi, age 31, is an American journalist of Iranian and Japanese descent who was arrested in February 2009, and is being held in Iran on charges of espionage, which her lawyer and the U.S. Dept. of State call baseless.
Saberi is a freelance journalist who moved to Iran six years ago, and reports for NPR, the BBC, and other news organizations.
She grew up in Fargo, N.D., the daughter of Reza Saberi, who was born in Iran, and Akiko Saberi, who is from Japan. She was chosen Miss North Dakota in 1997 and was among the top ten finalists in Miss America 1998. She graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., with degrees in communication and French.
She holds her first Master’s Degree in Journalism from Northwestern University and her second Master’s Degree in International Relations from Cambridge University.
She is currently working on yet another Masters degreee in Iranian studies and international relations.
The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that in 2008, Iran was the sixth-leading jailer of journalists.
(From Free Roxana Saberi)
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