Roxana Saberi, an American-Iranian journalist was arrested and imprisoned in Tehran, Iran for acting as a spy and disclosing national secrets to the world. She has worked for the BBC, CBS and other international radio and television news media organisations. Her imprisonment has been denounced by all free thinking nations and her incarceration is further proof of Iran's disrespect of the freedom of expression.
I was very disappointed on how the Irish print media covered the jailing of one of their journalistic colleagues. The Irish Times and Irish Independent ran the story of her imprisonment in their World News sections. However, that was to be all. No editorial comment, no further coverage and even when Ms Saberi went on hunger strike there was only a mere couple of column inches given to her plight. This is a disgrace in my opinion. If papers wish to eradicate the iron grip the many countries have over their press then more coverage is needed to highlight the problem.
It seems that the Irish media completely disregarded Roxana Saberi's traumatic and illegal incarceration and ,in situations like these, every news institution must stand firm and denounce the acts of the Iranian government if we ,as journalists, are to succeed in our respective fields.
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