US Journatlist Believed To Be In Iranian Jail

Update April 21, 2009: U.S. journalist Roxanna Saberi who is being held in Iran was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage, her father, lawyer and news reports said Saturday -- a sentence that prompted denunciation from the United States.

Reports in Iranian media, including an Iranian judiciary source quoted Saturday by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, confirmed the sentence of Roxana Saberi, a 31-year-old Iranian-American from North Dakota.

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March 3: CNN filed this report on American journalist Roxanna Saberi who was working in Iran and has been out of contact with her family for close to a month. It's believed she's in an Iranian jail.