Interesting development today out of Iran. A decision has been made to free the Iranian-American journalist who had been charged -- and convicted -- with spying:
An Iranian appeals court has reduced the eight-year jail sentence for Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi to a suspended two-year term and she will soon be freed, her defence lawyer told Reuters on Monday.I suspect this decision was made at pretty high levels in Iran, not just by the court of appeals.
Lawyer Abdolsamad Khorramshahi was speaking a day after the court heard the case of Saberi, who was jailed by a lower court on April 18 on charges of spying for the United States.
"The appeals court ... has reduced her jail sentence from eight years to two years of suspended sentence ... and she will soon be free," Khorramshahi told Reuters.
He said Saberi will be banned from doing any reporting work in Iran for five years.
