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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Iran sentences US reporter to 8 years in jail AFP - 1 hour 51 minutes ago TEHRAN (AFP) - - An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi to eight years in jail for spying for the United States, her lawyer said on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT The verdict -- the harshest sentence ever meted out to a dual national on security charges -- was greeted with shock by her father, who said Saberi had been "tricked" into confessing. She has been detained in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran since January and went on trial behind closed doors on Monday accused of spying for the United States. "Ms Saberi has been sentenced to eight years in jail and I am going to appeal," her lawyer Abdolsamad Khoramshahi told AFP. Under Iranian law, the verdict can be appealed within 20 days. The case against Saberi, a 31-year-old with US and Iranian nationality, has raised concerns in Washington and among rights groups. She was initially reported to have been detained for buying alcohol, an illegal act in the Islamic republic. The ISNA news agency, quoting an unnamed judiciary source, confirmed that a revolutionary court had sentenced Saberi for espionage. "Roxana said in court that her earlier confessions were not true and she told me she had been tricked into believing that she would be released if she cooperated," her father Reza Saberi told AFP. "Her denial is documented in her case but apparently they did not pay attention to it," he added, without saying when he had talked to his daughter. "We are very shocked and we were not expecting it. We were hoping for six months and then clemency." The court ruling comes despite calls by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Saberi's release and President Barack Obama's diplomatic overtures to Iran after three decades of ruptured ties. Several US-Iranians, including academics, have been detained in recent years on security charges, but released after several months behind bars. US-born Saberi, who is also of Japanese descent, has reported for US-based National Public Radio (NPR), the BBC and Fox News, and had lived in Iran for six years. In March, foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said Saberi's press card was revoked in 2006 and since then she had been working in Iran "illegally". Earlier this month Tehran's deputy prosecutor Hassan Haddad said Saberi was carrying out "spying activities under the guise of being a reporter." Haddad said Saberi had entered Iran, which does not recognise dual nationality, as an Iranian citizen and "there is no evidence that she has another citizenship." Last month, Saberi's parents appealed to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for her release, saying she was in a "dangerous" mental state. US State Department spokesman Robert Wood on Wednesday branded the trial "less than transparent" and said the charges against her were "baseless". A website freeroxana.net has been set up by her friends and university alumni, and the Committee to Protect Journalists also launched a petition calling for her release. The website said Saberi was chosen Miss North Dakota in 1997 and was among the top 10 finalists for Miss America the following year. Clinton said she had delivered a letter to the Iranian delegation at an international conference on Afghanistan in The Hague on March 31, seeking Saberi's release and making appeals on behalf of two other US citizens. Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent, vanished on the Gulf island of Kish two years ago, and student Esha Momeni has been prevented from leaving Iran despite being released from jail last year. Ghashghavi has denied receiving any letter from US officials asking about the three American citizens. After three decades of severed diplomatic ties, the Obama administration has called for dialogue with Tehran over its controversial nuclear drive, which Western powers fear could be a cover for efforts to build an atomic bomb. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Senate panel to probe eavesdropping violationsAP - Friday, April 17 For Sale: A taste of royalty from Princess brideAP - Friday, April 17 Venezuela opposes Americas Summit declarationAP - Friday, April 17 NY governor introduces bill to allow gay marriageAP - Friday, April 17 Israeli conductor Barenboim gets ovation in EgyptAP - Friday, April 17 Enlarge Photo US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, seen here in an image from the National Press Photographers Association in 2004, has been sentenced by an Iranian revolutionary court to eight years in jail on charges of spying for the United States, a relative has told AFP. 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