Tuesday, September 14, 2010

American hiker released from Iranian prison, state media reports


TEHRAN (Reuters) - One of three Americans held for more than a year in Iran suspected of spying has been freed, her lawyer said on Tuesday.
"I am inside Evin prison, doing her paperwork. She has been released and is heading toward the Swiss Embassy," Sarah Shourd's lawyer, Masoud Shafie, told Reuters from the jail where she had been held.
Shourd and two male companions were arrested near Iran's border with Iraq in July 2009. Their families say they were on a mountain hike in northern Iraq at the time of their arrest.

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