Thursday, April 16, 2009

Free Roxana Saberi

In an editorial on Iran's trumped up arrest and trial of Northwestern graduate and journalist Roxana Saberi, the WSJ cites the case of another Western woman journalist the Iranians put in jail. I remember. She was tortured for days, so brutally murdered that an Iranian doctor felt he had to flee the country to tell the world of this barbarism. Ms. Saberi is at risk:
For now, the important thing is to assure Ms. Saberi's safety and to work for her release. But it is worth noting that her arrest came days after President Obama was inaugurated, that the espionage charges were brought about the same time U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke shook hands with Iran's deputy foreign minister in the Hague (an encounter the Iranian foreign ministry officially denies, by the way), and that her "trial" coincides with news that the Administration will drop the longstanding U.S. demand that Iran cease its uranium enrichment as a precondition to direct talks.
President Obama, free Roxana Saberi. If you can.

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