Iran to release Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi ‘soon’

A senior Iranian judiciary official says Roxana Saberi, a freelance Iranian-American journalist held in detention, will be released soon.

“The investigation has been carried out and she will be released within a few days,” Hassan Haddad, a deputy to Tehran’s prosecutor, told ISNA news agency on Friday.

Roxana Saberi, 31, was arrested more than a month ago for working “illegally” as a journalist after her press card was revoked in 2006.

She has reported for the BBC, NPR, and Fox News during her six-year stay in Iran.

Haddad’s remarks came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Iran to release Saberi and help her return to her family in North Dakota.

(Source: Press TV)

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