Article: U.S. denounces Iran's treatment of American journalist.(CENTURY news)(United States's foreign relation, Roxana Saberi)

An Iranian-American journalist convicted of espionage by Iran's Revolutionary Court and sentenced to eight years in prison has become an unwitting figure in the tensions between the United States and the Middle Eastern nation.

Roxana Saberi, 31, worked as a journalist who filed reports from Iran for National Public Radio, the BBC and other news outlets until her credentials were revoked in 2006. Though she continued to report on a freelance basis, she was arrested in January for allegedly passing documents and information to U.S. intelligence services.

Saberi, named Miss North Dakota in 1997, was a graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. ...

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