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May 11, 2010

Iran Issues Visas to Mothers of Detained US Hikers
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The Iranian government has issued visas for the mothers of the three US
hikers who have been held for more than nine months. The mothers are
expected to travel soon to Iran to visit their children for the first
time since their arrest. Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were
detained last July after straying across Iran’s border during a hiking
trip in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region. In other news from Iran, a
correspondent for Newsweek has been sentenced in absentia to more than
thirteen years in prison. Maziar Bahari was arrested last year and held
for four months. Bahari’s sentencing came a day after five Iranian
Kurdish activists were hanged in a Tehran prison.



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