Roxana Saberi

By on April 21, 2009 in Uncategorized

The case of Roxana Saberi  is confusing even to the most unwavering followers of tenet Islamism.  First she gets accused of attempting to buy wine which is illegal in Iran. Then she gets jailed for operating as a journalist without a Press Pass and now she has already been tried and convicted of being a US spy, in a closed trial, the details of which have not been released.

Meanwhile the US, of which this one-time Beauty Queen – former Miss North Dakota – has a dual citizenship, along with Iran has condemmed the sentence as "deeply dissapointing".

Perhaps this is all the more shocking since being swept up by the current culture of open-mindedness between nations ushered in by America as the born-again purveyors of benevolent peace and renewed pledge of fair-play, one had begun to expect that more would be done. 

The toll of innocent victims especially women and children caught under the wheels of a soul-crushing "culture" seem to be rising instead of being on the decline.

Earlier this week came the shocking news of life imitating art with the father of Rubaina Ali, the young girl cast as the youngest Latika in the Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire, attempting to sell her off for money and now this.  There will be others that will follow no doubt – other stories, other girls and young women – but here’s my question – when faced with these what do we do?  That is for each one of us to decide. If at the end of the day we did a little something even if it be to tell someone how we FEEL – that may be something more than absolutely NOTHING!!!

Do I make you uncomfortable in speaking out about this outrage? Then I have succeeded in my INTENT FOR THE DAY!

You may read about Roxana Saberi at the following links:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8000522.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8005660.stm

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Meisner trained actress, Tori has played lead in several stage plays including Eric Bogosian’s Sex Drugs Rock & Roll, Caroline Kava’s The Early Girl, It had to be You by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna, as well as the stage production of Agnes of God. Currently a troupe member at the Hayworth Theater in Los Angeles. Her film Extraordinary Barry opened in select movie theaters in Los Angeles in April of 2008. Tori came into acting - by way of Radio Broadcasting. Arrived here a while back from across the Pond (England) - still carries the native British accent around with her. Speaks fluent Hindi - and trained in Classical Indian Music & Dance. Acting was not her first choice of profession & Tori fell into it quite by accident. No stranger to acting however, Tori has it in her blood. Her Great Aunt was Indian screen actress Suprova Mukerjee whose work is seen in Jean Renoir's film “The River” (1951) and a number of Indian Language films such as “Agni Pariksha” (1954) by ‘Agradoot’ among others. Tori is is now a screenwriter with a feature-length script re-named “Choosing Sides" (apparently the earlier title was already taken by Sidney Sheldon). 

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One Response to Roxana Saberi

  1. stevencravis April 25, 2009 at 9:53 pm #

    Yes, Tori, you have succeeded.

    Instrumental soundtrack to raise awareness about Roxana Saberi at:

    http://feeds2.feedburner.com/StevenCravisPodcasts

    and http://www.myspace.com/officialstevencravis

    -Steven