Paris - Imprisoned Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi has ended her hunger strike in a Tehran jail after two weeks, the organization Reporters Without Borders reported from Paris on Wednesday.

On Tuesday evening, Saberi informed her parents by telephone of her decision to end the strike, the journalist group said.

The 32-year-old Saberi, who worked for US National Public Radio, was sentenced in Iran to eight years in prison last month on charges of spying for the US government.

A court agreed to hear her appeal against the spying conviction next week, ISNA news agency reported Tuesday, citing Iranian judiciary spokesman Ali-Reza Jamshidi.

Her father Reza had earlier told Western media that Saberi had to be hospitalized owing to weakness from the hunger strike, but the judiciary spokesman denied the reports, insisting she had no health problems.

Tehran has rejected any foreign inluence in the Saberi case, treating the journalist as an Iranian citizen.

In Iran, dual nationality is not acknowledged but tolerated. In official cases, however, only the nationality of the subject's father is taken into account.

Saberi is a US citizen, her mother Japanese but her father is Iranian. (dpa)