Abdolsamad Khoramshahi :Roxana Saberi's appeal court will take place on Sunday May 10!

Mr. Khoramshahi the Roxana Saberi's lawyer said ; the appeal court of Roxana the Iranian-American journalist will take place on Sunday May 10.

Mr. khoramshahi added : the court hearing will start on 9:00am Iranian time.

Background:

Ms. Saberi is sentenced to 8 years imprisonment on the charges of espionage for US. Mr. Khoramshahi said ; he hopes his 15 pages of defense argument will be heard and his client be aquited.

Ms. Saberi is 32 years old and for the last six years she resided in Iran and was working for NPR an America Radio , BBC and FOX news. Although Islamic Republic authority believe that she was working as a journalist without news reporting permit.She was arrested on January 31st ,2009 and at first it was told she was arrested for having alcoholic beverage but the charges later was changed to espionage for US.

During her imprisonment in protest to her sentence Ms. Saberi went on hunger strike for two weeks and according to her father ended the hunger strike on May 6.

Iran Watch Canada believe that; this journalist has becom a target of Ahmadinejad's Government for political gain in the coming presidential election on June.

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