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Transcript: Birthday Wishes For Roxana Saberi
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- April 25, 2009
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SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
04-25-2009
Birthday Wishes For Roxana Saberi
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time 12:00-13:00 PM
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SCOTT SIMON, host:
Roxana Saberi turns 32 years old tomorrow in Tehran's Evin Prison where she's been sentenced to eight years for espionage. Her parents say she's anxious and depressed, and this morning her father confirmed she has been fasting for five days.
Roxana Saberi is from Fargo; her father's from Iran, her mother Japan. She played soccer and the piano with, her parents recall, intensity. Roxana went to Northwestern and Oxford and became Miss North Dakota 1997, but she had a fascination for Iran - moved there six years ago, where she's reported ...
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... ... friend of US-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi ... Full Size JPG (2193 KB ... friend of US-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi, accompanies her father, Reza ... detained in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI ...
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