Iran's court is scheduled to hear an appeal for Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of spying.

Iran's judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi announced on Tuesday that the closed-door hearing will be held sometime next week.

"Her case has been referred to an appeals court where it is being studied. A date has been set for next week," Jamshidi said, without specifying the exact date.

The court will be held with the presence of representatives from the country's intelligence ministry, the Iranian Bar association, and the prosecutors office, he added.

Saberi, who holds a dual citizenship of both the United States and Iran, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on espionage charges.

Saberi, who reported for the BBC, NPR, and Fox News during her six-year stay in Iran, was arrested in January for working 'illegally' as a journalist after her press card was revoked in 2006.

Iran's judiciary chief, Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi has ordered a "careful, quick and fair" appeal for the controversial eight-year sentence of an Iranian-American journalist.

Jamshidi also denied reports that Saberi--born to an Iranian father and Japanese mother-- has been on a hunger strike.

Saberi's father, Reza, had last week claimed that her daughter has gone on a hunger strike, which has left her "weak and frail."

He has also said the 32-year-old has been taken to a hospital in the Evin Prison in the country's capital, being fed intravenously before being returned to her cell.

“The prosecutor's office has announced that Roxana Saberi is in complete health and has not gone on a hunger strike,” Jamshidi told reporters.

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