Reza Saberi this week heard his imprisoned daughter’s voice for the first time in a month.

Roxana Saberi, the American freelance journalist jailed in Iran, called her dad in Fargo, ND, at 1:30 a.m. Monday. She was crying and the call was only two minutes long, Reza Saberi told the North Dakota press, but the most important thing seems to be that she’s safe and unharmed in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Iranian authorities claim Roxana, who has been writing a book, was arrested for working in Iran with expired press credentials. She suspects it may be the fact that she bought a bottle of wine on the black market. Regardless, her father says, she seems to be doing relatively well.

"She just said she loves us," Reza Saberi said. "But she said, psychologically, it’s really hard to be in prison. It sounds like she’s under great pressure."

Even though Iranian officials recently said their investigation was finished and Saberi could be released, her lawyer met her again this week and it’s still unclear whether she will be freed or have to go on trial. American and British news outlets, including the BBC, FOX News and Wall Street Journal, wrote a letter to Iranian authorities voicing concern for her "deprivation of her rights" and urging them to grant an independent person entry to the prison, as per the Geneva Conventions, to make sure she is unharmed. They also want the charges against Saberi to be made public.

Meanwhile, in somewhat related news, 23-year-old student journalist Sayed Pervez Kambaksh has been punished with 20 years in prison in Afghanistan for downloading and circulating an article on women’s rights and the Koran. Kambaksh, an Afghan citizen, was found guilty of blasphemy in a secret trial without getting a chance to mount a defense, and was originally sentenced to death. It’s believed corruption and conspiracy plagued the court. Kambaksh’s lawyer, Afzal Nooristani, accused the Supreme Court judges of behaving "no better than the Taliban," despite pleas from President Hamid Karzai to mete out justice "the right way." It’s now up to Karzai to determine whether Kambaksh deserves a presidential pardon.

"The Supreme Court represented the last hope that Pervez Kambakhsh would receive a fair hearing, but once again justice was denied," said Brad Adams of Human Rights Watch. "Kambakhsh has committed no crime. Now it is up to President Karzai to act on principle and free him."