TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s judiciary spokesman confirmed on Monday that U.S.-born journalist Roxana Saberi would be freed after an appeals court reduced her eight-year jail sentence for espionage to a two-year suspended term.
“In consideration of this ruling, naturally she will be freed,” judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi told the official IRNA news agency, without giving a date.
Reporting by Firouz Sedarat; Writing by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Matthew Jones
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