Have you ever been accused of doing something you know you didn’t do? Like your mom blames you for eating the last chocolate chip cookie when you saw your brother eat it. The same thing happened to Roxana Saberi, an American living in Iran to work as a journalist, except ten times worse. Roxana Saberi published stories for Feature Story News that were distributed all over the world. In 2006, her press accreditation was taken away twice before she was arrested on January 31, 2009. She was held by the Iranian Revolutionary Court on the belief that she was a spy. After being held in prison for over five weeks, Saberi was allowed to meet with an attorney. Her captures claimed she had obtained classified documents, which were really public information, …show more content…
She was blindfolded, put in solitary confinement, and was threatened to be executed if she didn’t confess to being a spy. Due to those pressures, Saberi falsely confessed to espionage and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Saberi was defended by Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi’s organization, Human Rights Defenders, and Iranian film director, Bahman Ghobadi, who published a letter stating her innocence and urging others to support Saberi too. During her imprisonment, Saberi went on a two-week long hunger strike as an act of non-violent rebellion and was followed closely by Amnesty International. Amnesty International later named her a prisoner of conscience, which is a person imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, political views or a person who was imprisoned because of non-violent expression of their beliefs. After being in jail for 101 days, Saberi was released due to the fact that Iran wasn’t at war with the United States so they weren’t considered to be hostile. After her release, Saberi wrote a book about her experiences in Iran and being arrested called “Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran” in