Julie here: For any of you who may not have heard yet, Persian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is being held in a Iranian prison. Roxanna was born and raised in Fargo, ND, and graduated from Concordia College (where I also graduated from), and went to Iran to explore her family history and as a reporter for NPR as well as other news outlets. She did not originally intend to stay as long as she did (6 years), and was recently tried and sentenced as a US spy. She was sentenced for 8 years.
You can help by going to this site: www.freeroxana.net and write a letter or e-mail to the address in the left corner. You can read any updates to her plight there and see the full story. Roxana turns 32 this Sunday, so her family & friends have set up an e-mail account where we can send her birthday wishes–her parents may be able to bring some of the messages with them when they go to visit her in prison. Send birthday wishes to: happybirthdayroxana@gmail.com
Please also Tweet about her, write about her in your blogs, on Facebook, etc. Any exposure for her story will help! Thanks!
