Michelle Commiskey
Apr. 8, 2009
1:19pm
Roxana Saberi has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Iran. Saberi is a freelance journalist living in Tehran. Two months ago she was arrested for the accusation of espionage while under the guise of being a journalist.
Saberi has worked with various western news corporations such as BBC and National Public Radio. Her credentials were revoked in 2006, but she continued to report for new outlets and worked on a book.
Saberi has admitted to espionage, although no verdict has been set yet and the case is still under investigation. As for her lawyer, he has yet to read her file. He has stated that on Saturday he is to go and see when the trial will be held and if he can read her file or not. Saberi’s friends and former co-workers claimed that they doubted she was a spy of any sort.
The accused, Saberi must either be lying about being a spy in hopes of avoiding an exacerbation of this scandal, or her friends are completely in the dark about her life. Fellow journalists said “she busied herself interviewing politicians and officials of all political stripes for her book”. If she is a spy, well then of course she interviewed political figures. They are the ones with all the secret information and as a journalist you have more access to them than a regular citizen would. If it turns out that Saberi is not a spy, then she was just doing her job. What do you think, is she a spy, or a liar?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-journalist9-2009apr09,0,64637.story
2 comments:
This story is very intriguing. It sounds to me like she is not a spy and she is just doing her job as a journalist. It appears that she was just trying to get a good story by interviewing politicians and officials. If I was a journalist, I would probably do the same thing.
I concur. just doing her job. Would spying mean that they would have to find some connection from her to a government or a organization with power to use this information? because if it went into a book... that would be odd...
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