Roxanna Saberi is a reporter based in Tehran and she joins us on the line.
Feature Story News, the stringer service that employed Roxana Saberi in Iran, also denounced the action.
Reza Saberi said his daughter was brought to the court, but he wasn't allowed to enter.
"According to NPR, Saberi continued to file short news items with government permission, " CPJ said.
Saberi grew up in North Dakota, where she was once crowned a beauty queen.
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Reza Saberi said the family is looking forward to the appeals process, expected to begin next week.
Saberi's parents flew to Tehran from their home in North Dakota to push for their daughter's release.
Her father, Reza Saberi, told NPR on Saturday he believes his daughter was coerced into making damaging statements.
Saberi thanked those who campaigned for her release, including her supporters in Iran.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hassan Qashqavi, also said in March that Saberi had been working in Iran without a permit.
Saberi has been living in Iran since 2003, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a journalists' advocacy group.
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Reza Saberi said his daughter had earlier wanted to go on a hunger strike but she was persuaded not to.
Saberi, who has an Iranian father and Japanese mother, is also an Iranian citizen, and was in Tehran as such.
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Last May, an Iranian-American freelance journalist named Roxana Saberi, was released after being detained for four months on charges of espionage.
When it comes to using hand sanitizer and wearing masks, Saberi says he encounters confusion about religious dictates and flu prevention.
Saberi is appealing her verdict, and Iranian authorities have said they will make sure her appeals process is quick and fair.
"I am, of course, very happy to be free and to be with my parents again, " a smiling Saberi, 32, told reporters.
Iranian authorities revoked her press credentials in 2006, but Saberi continued to file short news items without permission, the journalists' group said.
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Saberi's father said she has freelanced for National Public Radio and other news organizations and was writing a book about Iranian culture.
When she was first arrested earlier this year, Saberi told her father she had been caught buying wine, illegal in Islamic Iran.
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Saberi's father, Reza Saberi, said in March that his daughter called him on February 10 and said she'd been arrested 10 days earlier.
Iranian authorities revoked her press credentials in 2006, but Saberi continued to file short news items with permission from the government, CPJ said.
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Saberi, who comes from North Dakota, has been living in Iran since 2003, said the Committee to Protect Journalists, a journalists' advocacy group.
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The whole experience has been "very depressing" for her, and she has gone through a great deal of frustration, Saberi's father said Monday.
Dr. Asif Saberi gives them a short lecture on how to prepare and encourages everyone to have their shots at least seven days before traveling.
Saberi was detained in January, although no formal charges were disclosed.
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Haddad said Saberi's case will be sent to the revolutionary court.
Saberi, who was dressed in a black tunic and a blue headscarf, said she was only now learning of a global support campaign on her behalf.
Roxana Saberi, 32, had been drinking water but eating no food in protest at her detention at Tehran's Evin prison, according to her father, Reza Saberi.
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