Lawyer: U.S.-Iranian reporter freed from prison

Source: Xinhua | 05-12-2009 09:58

TEHRAN, May 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S.-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi has left the jail in Iran, her lawyer said Monday.

The U.S.-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi. (Xinhua File Photo)

"She has left the jail and she is on the way to their home (in Tehran)," Saberi's lawyer Abdolsamad Khorramshahi told the reporters.

Saberi, a 32-year-old freelance journalist, who was born in the United States and whose father is an Iranian, was arrested in Iran in the second half of January 2009 on charges of espionage for the United States.

In April, Saberi received eight years of sentence, but her lawyer made an appeal against the verdict.

Earlier on Monday, Saleh Nikbakht, her another lawyer, said Saberi has been sentenced to a two-year suspended term (in the appeal court) and she will be freed on Monday, according to the local ISNA news agency.