picture-8One week into her hunger strike, jailed American journalist and Fargo native Roxana Saberi is growing weak, according to her parents. Detained in January in Iran and sentenced to eight years for spying, Saberi has lost 10 pounds after seven days subsisting on a liquid-only diet, her parents, Reza and Akiko Saberi, said after visiting her on Monday. She’ll continue the protest against her incarceration — which stemmed from her illegal purchase of wine in Tehran in January to snowballing charges that later included working without a legal press card and, finally, spying — until she is released. (An Iranian official denies that Saberi is on a hunger strike and says she’s in “good condition.”)

Members of Reporters without Borders are joining Saberi in a hunger strike in Paris today: they stopped eating at 11 a.m. Paris time. The organization says Iran ranks 166th out of 173 in press freedom. Currently Saberi is among seven journalists and two bloggers who are currently jailed in the country. She was sentenced after a closed, one-day trial.