The American public radio network, National Public Radio (NPR) lists links to 22 broadcast stories to which Roxana Saberi contributed as a journalist or which she prepared herself (between May 2003 and August 2007). The list of these stories is noted below (without links), and can be found here, with links. In addition, NPR says [...]
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The National Public Radio reported, in its “All Things Considered” program on 13 May, that “A lawyer for Roxana Saberi, the American journalist who was convicted of espionage last month in Iran, disclosed new details about her case Wednesday, telling NPR that the Iranian prosecutor in the case had claimed Saberi was actively recruited by [...]
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In an email sent on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 10:40 PM, the IDF announced that “In accordance with the decision made by the Minister of Defense and as part of the security measures adopted by the defense establishment, a general closure will be implemented in the Judea and Samaria region [i.e., the West Bank] [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
“Know Hope” is a personal favorite bit of graffiti written on the ugly grey 8-meter-high concrete Wall that is right at the entrance to Bethlehem. It is a counter to the often-heard phrase here, “No Hope”. On Friday, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of East [...]
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Filed under: International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Security Council
On 12 May, as Haaretz reported, its correspondent Amira Hass [a Jewish Israeli who now lives in Ramallah after living for several years in Gaza in the 1990s] was arrested after leaving the Gaza Strip following several months reporting from the spot. Haaretz wrote that “Israel Police on Tuesday detained Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass upon [...]
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Time Magazine calls this A Video from the Grave. In in a Guatemalan lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, tells anyone listening that if they are seeing this video, it is because he is dead — because he has been assassinated. He accuses the President of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, and his wife Sandra de Colom, plus two [...]
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At 10:50 am on Friday, the Pope was deep in prayer at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of East Jerusalem. Then he lit a candle and greeted a Greek Orthodox and an Armenian cleric, and departed. Applause broke out as he emerged from the darkened interior [...]
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hursday – ALL ISRAELI DAY – at Israel’s largest Arab city, with a high percentage of Christians, where the Virgin Mary is believed to have been informed by the Archangel Gabriel that God had chosen her to bear a child, a very special child — and Mary agreed to accept the burden, even though she [...]
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Today the Pope will spend the whole day in Bethlehem — in the occupied West Bank. His visit will start with an early morning visit to Rachel’s Tomb, which is right next to Aida (Palestinian) refugee camp, but now totally surrounded by 9-meter-high concrete slabs of The Wall, guarded by Israeli Border Police and soldiers, [...]
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Here is The Wall outside Aida (Palestinian) refugee camp in Bethlehem. The photo below shows Palestinian boys playing next to The Wall, where a hand-painted sign welcomes the visit of the Pope to Palestine. Another hand-painted sign being written to welcome the Pope to Aida refugee camp – here, The Wall almost looks surreal: On [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall