Unix Timestamp: 1240012800
Saturday, April 18. 2009, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist, is sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage by an Iranian court. She is released the following month, after an appeals court reduces and suspends her sentence.

Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is charged with espionage and imprisoned in Iran until 2017. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8005660.stm (BBC)