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Roxana Saberi

Roxana Saberi

This is the official website of Roxana Saberi, a journalist, author, speaker, and human rights advocate. Her book Between Two Worlds tells the story of her 2009 arrest and captivity in Iran.

At a wedding in Kurdistan Province, Iran

Filming at the anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution (Imam Khomeini Shrine, Iran, June 4, 2003)

Filming at Ayatollah Khomeini’s Shrine (June 4, 2003)

Saberi with her father’s two sisters in Iran

Volunteers at an HIV-AIDS clinic in Iran (Photo credit: Roxana Saberi)

View of Tehran (Photo credit: Omid Salehi)

Evin Prison is Iran’s most notorious prison, where many prisoners of conscience, including student activists, journalists, bloggers, and women’s rights campaigners, are held.

Evin Prison, Tehran

These prisoners are often taken to Section 209, where Saberi was detained for 100 days in early 2009.

Evin Prison’s Section 209 (Photo credit: Human Rights Activists in Iran)

A cell in Evin’s Section 209 (Photo credit: Human Rights Activists in Iran)

Drawing of the layout of part of Section 209

A photo of Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet, two of Saberi’s cellmates, taken before their arrests in 2008

The seven detained leaders (including Fariba and Mahvash) of Iran’s minority Baha’i community (Photo Credit: Baha’i International Community)

Saberi’s parents on the way to Iran, April 2009

Saberi speaking to journalists in Tehran on May 12, 2009, the day after she was freed.

Speaking at a “The Struggle for Human Rights in Iran,” an event held at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), April 26, 2010. (Courtesy of David Tuman)

Book signing after a talk at UCLA, April 26, 2010 (Photo credit:  David Tuman)

Book talk at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., April 7, 2010

After a human rights event in Sterling, VA, May 23, 2010 (Courtesy of Hamzaban Cultural Foundation)

With a student studying journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill campus in Doha, Qatar, 2010.

After speaking at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, with students of International Relations, History, and Middle Eastern Studies, November 2010 (Courtesy of Flavio Rassekh)

Visiting with students at The Chicago High School for the Arts, October 2011

Speaking at M State in Moorhead, MN, in October 2011

Speaking at Moraine Valley Community College in Illinois, Nov. 8, 2011 (Photo by Glenn Carpenter)

Speaking at Southern Utah University, Nov. 15, 2011 (Photo by Lynn Eldridge)

Undergraduate Commencement Speech at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, May 27, 2012 (Photo credit: U Mass Dartmouth Photo Dept.)

 

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