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| Broadcasters urge Saberi access | Broadcasters urge Saberi access |
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| A number of UK and US media outlets, including the BBC, have called on Iran to allow independent access to detained American journalist Roxana Saberi. | A number of UK and US media outlets, including the BBC, have called on Iran to allow independent access to detained American journalist Roxana Saberi. |
| She has been in custody in Teheran since late January on unknown charges and allowed only one brief phone contact with her family. | She has been in custody in Teheran since late January on unknown charges and allowed only one brief phone contact with her family. |
| Iranian officials have accused her of continuing to work in the country after her press credentials were revoked. | Iranian officials have accused her of continuing to work in the country after her press credentials were revoked. |
| The authorities must specify how she broke the law, the media groups said. | The authorities must specify how she broke the law, the media groups said. |
| A US-Iranian national, Ms Saberi has spent six years in Iran studying and writing a book. | A US-Iranian national, Ms Saberi has spent six years in Iran studying and writing a book. |
| She worked briefly for the BBC, and more recently filed reports for the US Fox News network and National Public Radio. | She worked briefly for the BBC, and more recently filed reports for the US Fox News network and National Public Radio. |
| The open letter expresses deep concern about Ms Saberi's well-being and "the deprivation of her rights". | The open letter expresses deep concern about Ms Saberi's well-being and "the deprivation of her rights". |
| "We now ask that one or more international organizations that have responsibilities and rights under the Geneva Conventions be permitted access to Roxana immediately to ascertain her health and well-being and to determine the conditions under which she is held," it says. | "We now ask that one or more international organizations that have responsibilities and rights under the Geneva Conventions be permitted access to Roxana immediately to ascertain her health and well-being and to determine the conditions under which she is held," it says. |
| Roxana has many friends and colleagues around the world - all of us are deeply concerned about her well-being Jon Williams Read the BBC Editors blog | |
| It goes on to demand that any specific charges against her be made public. | It goes on to demand that any specific charges against her be made public. |
| "If no charges are filed, we now urge her immediate release and ask that she be given permission to return to her home country, the United States," it says. | "If no charges are filed, we now urge her immediate release and ask that she be given permission to return to her home country, the United States," it says. |
| Signatories include Vivian Schiller and David Westin, presidents of NPR and ABC News, Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Robert Thomson, John Stack of FoxNews, and Jon Williams, who is World Editor at the BBC. | Signatories include Vivian Schiller and David Westin, presidents of NPR and ABC News, Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Robert Thomson, John Stack of FoxNews, and Jon Williams, who is World Editor at the BBC. |