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File picture dated February 19, 2002 shows Iran's conservative head of the judiciary Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi addressing students at the mosque of Tehran University. The Islamic republic's judiciary chief said on April 20, 2009 that he has ordered a "quick and fair" appeal for US reporter Roxana Saberi who was sentenced to jail as a US spy in a case that has raised deep concern in Washington. Saberi, 31, was convicted by an Iranian revolutionary court in a closed-door trial last week of spying for the United States, but in an unprecedented move on April 19, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for "justice" for Saberi and said she should be given the right to defend herself.
