French group urges Iran to free US journalist

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French group urges Iran to free US journalist
AP

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PARIS – More than a dozen people in Paris have launched a hunger strike in support of an American journalist who is in jail in Tehran.

The journalist, Roxana Saberi, has herself been on a hunger strike for a week. She began refusing food after being sentenced by a court in Iran to eight years in prison for allegedly spying for the United States.

Jean-Francois Julliard, the secretary-general of Reporters Without Borders, and a group of the organization's supporters are seated on the sidewalk in front of the Paris offices of Iran Air, the Iranian national airline.

Julliard says Tuesday's action on the Champs Elysees is aimed at mobilizing public opinion in favor of Saberi and other journalists jailed in Iran.

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