RFE/RL interviews Radio Farda's Parnaz Azima

RFE/RL desk editor Jeff Donovan asks Radio Farda correspondent Parnaz Azima about her one-year prison sentence handed down on March 1, 2008, by an Iranian court that convicted her of "spreading anti-state propaganda."

Azima, a citizen of both Iran and the United States, returned to Radio Farda in Prague in September 2007 after spending eight months captive in Iran. She was appealing the March 1 verdict, but could face a stark choice -- return to Iran to serve the sentence or forfeit the deed to her 95-year-old mother's Tehran home, which was turned over to authorities in lieu of 510 million toomans ($550,000) in bail. Radio Farda is a joint operation of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America, broadcasting in Persian to Iran from Washington and from RFE/RL broadcast headquarters in the Czech Republic.

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