2011
Iran must stop persecuting minority religions
CNN.com, Dec. 21, 2011 (An op-ed I wrote about Iran’s religious minorities)

Fargo native, Roxana Saberi, continues to share her story
WDAY, Nov. 13, 2011 (A short TV report about my visit to my hometown of Fargo)

Saberi talks at JC about leadership, time in Iran prison
The Jamestown Sun, Nov. 11, 2011

‘Freedom of Conscience’: American Journalist Jailed in Iran Shares Her Story at Moraine Valley
Patch.com, Nov. 10, 2011

Roxana Saberi Speaks in Moorhead About Fight Against Global Injustice
The Forum of Fargo Moorhead, Oct. 26, 2011

Christopher Gabriel Program:  Interview with Roxana Saberi
WDAY radio, Oct. 24, 2011

Roxana Saberi on Captivity in Iran
Northwestern News Network, Oct. 24, 2011

Roxana Saberi Discusses Captivity, Voice at Chicago Campus
The Daily Northwestern, Oct. 19, 2011

Roxana Saberi, Journalist Held in Iranian Prison for 100 Days, Discusses the Arab Spring and More
The Huffington Post, Oct. 19, 2011 

Who are Iran’s Political Prisoners?
The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 6, 2011 – My op-ed about the need for more international attention on Iran’s prisoners of conscience

Acclaimed Journalist Roxana Saberi to Speak with Facing History Audiences in Chicago
Facing History and Ourselves, Oct. 5, 2011

What’s Next for the Released Hikers?
The Today Show, Sept. 22, 2011 – Ann Curry’s interview with Farah Mawani and me

Captive in Iran
Minnesota Public Radio, Sept. 22, 2011 – MPR interview about the release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal

Cal Grads Fly to Freedom After Release from Iran Prison
KCBS, Sept. 22, 2011 – San Francisco radio station’s story about release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal

Hikers Freed
CBC, Sept. 21, 2011 – CBC interviews me about the release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal

Saberi ‘Delighted’ for Hikers’ Release
CNN, Sept. 21, 2011 –  After two U.S. hikers are set free, journalist Roxana Saberi talks about spending 100 days in Iran’s Evin prison.

Hikers’ Readjustment May Be Tough
Oakland Tribune, Sept. 21, 2011

Med samvittigheden bag tremmer
Kristeligt Dagblad, May 16, 2011 – A Danish publication’s review about my book’s release in Denmark

Ebadi:  Vote for those who respect human rights
CNN.com, April 22, 2011 – My Q&A with Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi

Erfahrungen mit der iranischen Willkürjustiz
Frankfurter Allgemeine, April 20, 2011 – A German publication’s review of Between Two Worlds (Hundert Tage) – by Sarah Elsing

Hinter iranischen Gefangnismauern
Heise, April 14, 2011 – my Q&A with a German publication

Ross hosts journalist imprisoned in Iran to talk about experience
Daily Nebraskan, April 13, 2011 – about my visit to University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Journalist Recounts Imprisonment in Iran
The Commercial Appeal, March 25, 2011 – about my visit to Memphis, TN

Remarkable Gathering of Femme Filmmakers Becoming Film Itself
Beck / Smith Hollywood, March 20, 2011

Behind Bars in Iran
KNPR, March 18, 2011 – An interview with Nevada Public Radio — (This journalist asked very thoughtful questions.)

Free Iran’s Bahai Seven
Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2011 – My op-ed for the WSJ

Author / Journalist Roxana Saberi Speaks in Vail Tonight
Vail Daily, March 14, 2011

Stolpern mit System
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, March 12, 2011 – An interview with the German journalist Harald Staun

Gefangen im Teheraner Evin-Gefängnis
March 11, 2011 – A review by German journalist Gerrit Wussman

Als Journalistin in Gefangenschaft
DRadio Wissen, March 10, 2011 – An interview with German radio journalist Wiebke Lehnhoff

Gefangen in Iran – Roxana Saberis Buch “Hundert Tage”
3Sat, March 9, 2011 – An interview with German TV

‘You Can Smell Your Own Fear’ in Notorious Iranian Prison
Metro World News, March 8, 2011 – By Ruben Eg

100 Days in an Iranian Prison
FM4 Radio, March 4, 2011 – An interview with Austria’ FM4 Radio (Please scroll down the page to find it.)

“Hundert Tage” Politische Haft Im Iran
Relevant, March 4, 2011 –  An interview published in German

A Freed US Journalist Talks About Repression In Iran
KPBS, Feb. 28, 2011 – An interview with San Diego’s public radio station.

Iran, Roxana Saberi a Tmnews: “iraniani vogliono la democrazia”
Feb. 27, 2011 – An interview with an Italian publication

San Diego Week, PBS Video
KPBS-TV, Feb. 25, 2011 – An interview with KPBS (public television) in San Diego, starting at the 10:15 time code.

Keep the Spotlight on Iran’s Protesters
Chicago Tribune, Feb. 18, 2011 – Iranian demonstrators who took to the streets Monday in what organizers called a rally of solidarity with protesters in Egypt and Tunisia are facing a much more arduous battle than their counterparts.

2010

Poder e responsabilidade, Brasil e Irã
Dec. 10, 2010 – My op-ed (translated into Portuguese) in the Brazilian paper Folha de S. Paulo, entitled “Power and Responsibility, Brazil and Iran.”

Se Lula fosse sindicali no Irã estaria preso, diz jornalista iraniana
Nov. 24, 2010 – An article (in Portuguese) in the Brazilian paper Folha de S. Paulo, including my letter to then-President Lula.
And an interview with the paper is here.

“Prisoner of conscience” Roxana Saberi recalls time in Iranian jail
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov.17, 2010 – Roxana Saberi was always an insider and an outsider as a reporter in Iran, where she lived from 2003 to 2009.  She was born in the US to an…

Pacific Citizen – Sept. 17, 2010
Roxana Saberi, former JACL Scholorship winner, opens up about her captivity in Iran

Saberi recalls captivity in Iranian jail where hiker was held
CNN, Sept. 17, 2010 – In Tehran’s Evin Prison, American Sarah Shourd’s lonely days must have seemed endless, filled with fear and uncertainty.
And anger toward her captors — possibly even toward God, said journalist Roxana Saberi.
She, like Shourd, spend time in solitary confinement at Evin, a Tehran prison that has become notorious for harsh conditions, according to human rights groups.

Sarah Shourd’s life after release
CNN, Sept. 16,2010 – American hiker Sarah Shourd is free, but her fiancé, Shane Bauer, and friend, Josh Fattal, are still being held in an Iranian prison. The three Americans were detained after they allegedly strayed across an unmarked border into Iran while hiking in Iraq’s Kurdistan region in July 2009. Iran accused the three of spying, a charge the United States and the hikers have denied. An Iranian prosecutor said Wednesday a trial will commence soon. Journalist Roxana Saberispent 100 days in the same, notorious prison before she was finally released last year. She joined us on Thursday’s American Morning to help us understand what the three Americans are going through.

U.S. journalist recalls imprisonment in Iran
Knoxville News Sentinel, Sept. 16, 2010
Roxana Saberi has yet to finish the book she was researching in Iran when she was arrested and charged with espionage.  But she has completed the one about her 100-day imprisonment and interrogation.

In Iran, Shackling the Bahai Torchbearers

Aug. 28, 2010 - For several weeks last year, I shared a cell in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison with Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, two leaders of Iran’s minority Bahai faith. I came to see them as my sisters, women whose only crimes were to peacefully practice their religion and resist pressure from their captors to compromise their principles. For this, apparently, they and five male colleagues were sentenced this month to 20 years in prison.

Washington, D.C. rallies for the people of Iran

June 12, 2010 – A rally for human rights on the one-year anniversary of Iran’s disputed presidential election

Saberi on KUER Radio, Salt Lake City

June 1, 2010 – Tuesday on RadioWest, the journalist Roxana Saberi joins Doug to talk about her experience in Iran, being captured by intelligence agents.  Saberi was charged with espionage, and sentenced to eight years in prison after she recanted a forced confession.  She was released a year ago, and Saberi has written a book to talk about the ordeal – her imprisonment, her release, and the importance of her faith to help her get through it. The book is called “Between Two Worlds.

Saberi Interviewed on C-SPAN

May 31, 2010 – Roxana Saberi talked about her book Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran (Harper; March 30, 2010). She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. She was interviewed outside the C-SPAN Civics Bus near Haines Hall at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the UCLA campus on Sunday, April 25, 2010.

Roxana’s interview on the Tavis Smiley show
May 30th, 2010
Roxana Saberi – Jailed Journalist in Iran

A chance to stand tall against Iran on human rights
May 23rd, 2010
Washington Post Op-Ed
Roxana Saberi

Family of man held in Iran comforted by Saberi

KARE11.com – By John Croman

Minneapolis, Minn. — Journalist Roxana Saberi gave a riveting account of her time locked in an Iran prison in 2009, during a speech at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

She endured more than three months in Evin Prison, where she was subjected to intimidation, interrogation and psychological pressure.  It’s a story sure to evoke feelings of outrage for those accustomed to civil rights and due process.

And yet Saberi’s tale was somehow comforting to the family of a Shane Bauer, the Minnesota native being held in the same prison. They especially appreciated the photos and diagrams of the prison Saberi projected on the big screen.

Fargo Reporter Tells Of Her Life In Iranian Prison

WCCO – Minneapolis – By Liz Collin
Roxana Saberi spoke at the University of Minnesota Friday. After her speech, Saberi signed copies of book “Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran …

San Francisco Chronicle review of Saberi’s book

by Susanne Pari, April 16, 2010

In 2009, behind the walls of Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, American journalist Roxana Saberi confessed to being a CIA spy on a mission to help overthrow the Islamic Republic in a so-called soft revolution. Chances are that many of us would have done the same, whether it was true or not. In Saberi’s case, it was not.

Q&A:  Roxana Saberi, Journalist Who Was Imprisoned in Iran and a Northwestern Grad, Talks to Make It Better
April 18th, 2010
APR 2010  | BY SUSAN B. NOYES AND LIZ LOGAN

Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2010

LAT: Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi works out frustrations – By Saul Austerlitz
He made ‘No One Knows About Persian Cats,’ about two Iranian rockers trying to make it to a London gig, without government approval.

Iran Is Abusing Three More American Hostages
April 3, 2010 The Wall Street Journal — op-ed by Roxana Saberi and Omid Memarian

2009:

Roxana Saberi on Her Life in Iran
ABC Good Morning America, May 29, 2009 – interview with Diane Sawyer

Will Iran Loosen the Grip of Iran’s Hardliners?
Washington Post, June 11, 2009 -  “Roxana, when you go back to America,” my cellmate entreated me last month, “please tell others that our country is not only about the nuclear issue. It is also about people like us.”

My cellmate was one of the many “prisoners of conscience” I left behind when I was release from Tehran’s Evin Prison on May 11.

A Journalist’s View of Iran
PRI’s The World, June 16, 2009 – Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi about her views on the developments in Iran since last Friday’s elections. Saberi worked as a reporter in Iran for six years until she was arrested and jailed this winter on charges of espionage. She was released last month.

Speaking Truth to Power:  Election Crisis Adds More Risks to Free Speech in Iran
Chicago Tribune, June 21, 2009 – “Just a moment,” an Iranian friend typed as we chatted online, “while I upload my photos of today’s protest onto Facebook.” He is only one of many ordinary Iranians informing the world about the momentous events taking place in Iran since the country’s disputed June 12 presidential election. As traditional media outlets and foreign journalists have faced mounting government restrictions on their reporting, “citizen journalists” have stepped in.

Roxana Saberi and USCIRF Call for Release of Iranian Baha’is
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, July 9, 2009

Roxana Saberi’s Speech, July 25, 2009 in Chicago
During Chicago’s portion of the Global Day of Action for Iran, on Saturday, July 25th, 2009, U.S. journalist and former Iranian prisoner Roxana Saberi delivered a moving speech about the realities of free speech in the U.S. vs. in Iran, and the ongoing struggle in Iran for basic, human rights.

Beaucoup d’Iraniens Prisent la Musique Underground
Le Dimanche, December 18, 2009 – An interview with le Dimanche journal about cultural restrictions in Iran.

Sweet Home North Dakota
Medill Magazine, Winter 2009 – Roxana Saberi returns to Fargo after spending 100 days in Evin Prison.

2006:

1) Reaction in Iran to Possible U.N. Sanctions

Day to Day, February 2, 2006 · Alex Chadwick speaks with correspondent Roxana Saberi, reporting from the Iranian capital of Tehran, on reactions within the nation to news of possible international sanctions because of Iran’s reactivated uranium enrichment program.

2) Iran Provides Money to Palestinian Government

Morning Edition, April 17, 2006 · Iran is giving the Hamas-led Palestinian government $50 million in aid. Renee Montagne speaks with reporter Roxana Saberi in Tehran about the donation’s importance. They also talk about Iran’s resistance to international pressure to stop its nuclear program.

3) Iran Bans Women from Attending Men’s Soccer Games – by Roxana Saberi

Morning Edition, May 17, 2006 · Iranian women soccer fans are devastated following a decision by Iran’s Supreme Leader that women are not allowed to watch men’s soccer games in person. This decision comes just a month after Iran’s President said women are allowed to watch soccer matches at stadiums.

4) Iranians Urged to Dress More Conservatively – by Roxana Saberi

Day to Day, October 18, 2006 · The government of Iran is considering a stricter interpretation of Islamic law that would encourage citizens to wear more traditional clothing. Roxana Saberi reports from Tehran.

5) Iran Moves on Enrichment Despite Sanctions -by Roxana Saberi and Renee Montagne

Morning Edition, December 27, 2006 · The U.N. Security Council passed sanctions against Iran last weekend in an attempt to hinder the Islamic country’s nuclear program. Iran has vowed to continue its uranium enrichment activities despite the sanctions.

2005:

1) Iran’s New Leader Vows to Restart Nuclear Program – by Roxana Saberi

Morning Edition, June 27, 2005 · Iran’s conservative president-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has vowed to restart the nation’s controversial nuclear program and warned European negotiators that building trust requires a mutual effort.

2) Iranian Military Plane Crashes into Tehran Building – by Roxana Saberi

Morning Edition, December 6, 2005 · An Iranian military transport plane crashed Tuesday into an apartment building as it was attempting to land at a Tehran airport, killing all 94 people on board and more than two dozen occupants of the building. Iranian state television described the cause of the crash as a technical failure.

3) Plane Crash in Tehran Kills More than 100 – by Roxana Saberi

All Things Considered, December 6, 2005 · A military transport plane carrying Iranian journalists plows into an apartment complex in Iran’s capital city, Tehran. The crash leaves more than 100 dead and dozens more injured.

2004:

1) Muslim Clerics Bar Liberals from Iran Elections – by Madeleine Brand

Day to Day, January 12, 2004 · NPR’s Madeleine Brand talks with Roxana Saberi, a journalist in Tehran, Iran, about the move by Muslim clerics to bar liberals from running in the upcoming elections and the protests that have followed.

2) ‘The Lizard’ Raises Eyebrows in Iran – by Steve Inskeep

Morning Edition, May 13, 2004 · A new movie is selling out theaters in Iran but angering some of the country’s religious leaders. Government censors delayed the release of The Lizard, and some leading clerics want it banned altogether .. Hear NPR’s Steve Inskeep and journalist Roxana Saberi.

2003:

1) U.S. & Iran Relations – by Neal Conan and Mike Shuster

Talk of the Nation, May 28, 2003 · Accusations of developing a nuclear weapons program and harboring al Qaeda — sounds like the case against Iraq? Try Iran. Join host Neal Conan and guests for a discussion on what’s next in chilly relations between Washington and Tehran. Guests: Roxana Saberi (Tehran Correspondent and Bureau Chief for Feature Story News); Mike Shuster (NPR Correspondent); Rob Sobhani (Adjunct professor of U.S. foreign policy at Georgetown University).

2) IAEA Chief to Visit Iran for Nuke Talks

NPR.org, July 1, 2003 · Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, will travel to Iran next week to hold talks on the country’s nuclear programs. News of the trip comes as Tehran faces growing international pressure to accept stricter inspections of its nuclear facilities. Roxana Saberi reports.

3) Fighting Against Discrimination in Iran

Day to Day, September 9, 2003 · The United Nations has issued a resolution aiming to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women. Some reformists in Iran would like their country to be a part of the U.N. resolution — Roxana Saberi reports from Tehran.

4) Weapons Inspectors Assess Iran’s Nuke Program

Day to Day, November 7, 2003 · International nuclear weapons inspectors meet this weekend to assess Iranian progress in opening its nuclear weapons programs to outside observers. Reporter Roxana Saberi reports from Iran on how the government is reacting to international pressure.

5) Relief Efforts Take Hold in Iran (after massive earthquake in southern part of country)

All Things Considered, December 31, 2003 · Relief efforts continue in Iran following last Friday’s earthquake, as soldiers pull four more people alive from the rubble Wednesday. Relief supplies and emergency workers are still arriving in the region surrounding the city of Bam, where many survivors are now living in tents. NPR’s Melissa Block talks with Roxana Sabieri, Tehran correspondent for Feature Story News.