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Tag Archives: Shane Bauer
US hikers sentenced to 8 years in Iranian prison
Two young Americans who had been arrested by an Iranian border patrol while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan and who have been held in prison in Iran for more than two years have now been sentenced to eight years in prison for … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Politics, Travel, USA
Tagged adventure, espionage, Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, US hikers
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What Sarah Shourd can’t say (yet)
Sarah Shourd, the American woman who was hiking in the Iraq-Iran border region last year and was arrested on that occasion and who subsequently spent 13 months in a prison in Iran, was finally released on 14 September 2010 without ever … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Politics, USA
Tagged Ahmadinejad, Evin, Evin prison, hostage, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Josh Fattal, Joshua Fatal, prison, Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, Tehran, US hikers
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The Happy Hermit 