TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A lawyer for an American journalist freed after four months imprisoned in Iran says she obtained a confidential document about the U.S. war in Iraq while working as a translator for a powerful clerical body, which was used against her in her espionage trial.
Roxana Saberi was freed Monday after an appeals court reduced her original eight-year prison sentence to a two-year suspended sentence.
One of her lawyers, Saleh Nikbakht, says her original conviction came in part because she had copied and kept a “confidential bulletin” issued by a research center connected to the president’s office.
He says she did so while working as a freelance translator two years ago for the Expediency Council, a powerful clerical body in Iran’s government.
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