Roxana Saberi Talks to Diane Sawyer About Her Time in Iran's Evin Prison

From playing piano on the prison walls to repeating the "Star Spangled Banner" to keep her spirits up, former Iranian prisoner Roxana Saberi said she got through her nearly three months of confinement by praying to a God she once thought had given up on her.
The jailed journalist talks about her career prior to imprisonment in Iran.

"I learned many lessons, I learned that, do not fear those who can hurt your body but not your soul. No one can hurt your soul unless you let them," Saberi told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an interview airing Friday on "Good Morning America." "I also learned that, do what you think is right even if you suffer for it, in the end you will be victorious."

Grateful for her freedom and the international push that helped her get home, Saberi said she left Iran with a heavy conscience knowing all the other women would stay behind -- some for months or years -- with the public never knowing their names.

Housed in solitary confinement for her first two weeks in Evin, Saberi was eventually housed with other women, some who were imprisoned for crimes like speaking out in favor of what many consider to be basic human rights.

"When I was moved into the cells with some of the other women, I saw their strength and they were role models to me and I learned from them," she said. "They inspired me. At one point I told myself, I'm not going to cry anymore until the day I become free, and then I want to cry tears of joy. So I, indeed, made it until I became free, fortunately with the international support that I had."

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[Zoptemis]

Thank God nobody touched her!!!...just imagine someone would have even accidently touched her or bomped into her, then together with dian sawyer they would have terrorised everything in this interview.....good thing at least she did'nt lie about touching her...good girl...dian swayer is trying soooooo hard to induce her in telloing lies or hating Iran but as she is a reporter(they don't get easily influenced) and half iranian she didn't forget being a good person!

Hope these tensions will end!

[sohrab2012]

شکنجه گر در اوین:

من هربار تو را شکنجه می‌کنم صورت امام را میبینم که به من لبخند میزند،

برادران حزب الهی کاشکی‌ شما میتوانستید برای مدتی‌ در خارج از ایران زندگی‌ کنید تا تصویر بهتری از زندگی‌ داشته باشید،

[zederish]

@sohrab2012 چه داستان سرائی هایی

[sybillastube]

neen, niet ongepast, maar ik deel haar mening niet en dat is niet erg.

[yoislam]

This is Nothing Compared to what mrs Dr Affia Sadique has suffered by the American laws. And she is still suffering to this day !

[RockOn831]

why doesen't everyone just shut the fuck up!

obviously the women has been put through a lot of crap by some of shittiest govermount's in iran im iranian myself aswell.hamashoon kar hastan marg bar aytollah khomeni!!

[sybertime2000]

آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای,

۱- ایران آزاد‌ترین کشور دنیاست.

۲- سانسور در ایران معنی‌ ندارد.

۳- ما اصلا زندانی سیاسی نداریم.

۴-آخرین انتخابات سالمترین انتخابات در تاریخ ایران بود.

[lookfortherainbow]

silly bitch should play by the iranian rules in IRAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kermanshah123]

My dad spent 8 years in evin just for writting an anti-regime book

[fctchk]

03:29 Saberi: "The God that I had felt before had abandoned me was still with me, but he wasn't pleased with me..."

Assumptions based on feelings based on beliefs; knowledge of the state of mind of a supernatural being, presented as fact.

How do we know her delirious confabulations do not extend into and contaminate her journalistic objectivity? we don't.

Or, to put it more pointedly, what part of "Don't Make Stuff Up" of the journalism code of ethics does she not understand?

[Taktaz1]

She is khatami's malijack and a low life cheap messenger. It is obvious that she has memorized what she is saying.

She does not look to be mistreated.

Remember the Canadian Iranian photographer, Zahra Kazemi murdered by IRI?

Marg bar Mollah

Marg bar ingilis

Marg bar Jomhourieh Eslami

Marg bar doshmanan Iran