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D.C. Dispatches by Cynthia Dizikes

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    Klobuchar comments on release of journalist in Iran

    By Cynthia Dizikes | Published Mon, May 11 2009 10:00 am

    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An American journalist recently convicted of espionage and sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran has been released, according to her lawyer.

    The journalist, Roxana Saberi, grew up in Fargo, N.D., and had been in detention for nearly three months. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., was one of a number of lawmakers who had worked to have Saberi released.

    In a statement, Klobuchar said, “I am glad this injustice has been reversed and Roxana Saberi is now free to return home.  Her arrest and imprisonment provoked a worldwide response.  The government of Iran should never have used this young American journalist as a pawn in their international game.”

    In recent weeks, Klobuchar had worked closely with the U.S. Department of State on freeing Saberi, according to the senator’s office. Klobuchar also sent a letter to the secretary general of the United Nations in March, urging him to intervene with the government of Iran to secure the immediate release of Saberi.

    Saberi, a 32-year-old American-Iranian national who graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, had been living in Iran for the past six years reporting for National Public Radio and the BBC. She had planned to return to the United States this year.

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    Cynthia Dizikes is MinnPost's Washington, D.C., correspondent and covers Minnesota's congressional delegation and reports on developments out of Washington that are important to Minnesota readers. She received her master's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley and has worked as an intern in the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau, reporting on a variety of topics, and as a reporter for the Anniston Star in Alabama. Her work has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, Congress Daily and on National Public Radio. She can be reached at cdizikes [at] minnpost [dot] com.

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