>From cbc.ca - A missing British Columbia journalist is alleged to have committed several violations, a spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry said Tuesday. Dorothy Parvaz, 39, a correspondent for Al-Azeri's English-language channel, has been missing since she left the broadcaster's base in Qatar for Syria to report on the political turmoil. Last week, Al-Jazeera said Parvaz had been sent to Iran after she was detained in Damascus. Iranian spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday that Parvaz "traveled to Syria with expired Iranian passport, planned to work without a press permit and had several passports on her." Mehmanparast did not offer any evidence to back those claims. Parvaz is Iranian-born, and has Canadian, U.S. and Iranian citizenship. She is an experienced journalist who joined Al-Jazeera in 2010. She graduated from the University of British Columbia, obtained a masters from Arizona University, and held journalism fellowships at both Harvard and Cambridge. She previously worked as a columnist and feature writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the United States. With files from The Associated Press

I hope this is one of those cases where they release the journalist(s) after getting their bit of attention.