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UC Berkeley alumna Sarah Shourd recounted the details of her 410-day imprisonment in Iran’s Evin Prison to a crowded lecture hall, advocating for the release of two alumni who remain detained in the country after nearly two years. The lecture, facilitated by the campus’s Berkeley Lecture Series, consisted of a
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After two years of detention in Iranian prison, UC Berkeley alumni Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal spoke Sunday for the first time since landing on American soil. Bauer and Fattal, who were released Wednesday on a $1 million bail after two years of imprisonment for allegedly crossing the Iran-Iraq border
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The two American hikers and former UC Berkeley students detained for allegedly crossing the Iranian border more than two years ago were released early Wednesday morning on a $1 million bail by the Iranian authorities, The New York Times reported. According to The Times, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal —
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Omani and Iraqi officials have entered negotiations for the release of two UC Berkeley alumni detained in Iran after allegedly crossing the border while hiking more than two years ago. Iraq sent a delegation of of lawmakers to the Iranian capital to join the diplomatic talks on the release of
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A day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he would release the two former UC Berkeley students detained for allegedly crossing the border more than two years ago, Iran’s judiciary contradicted these statements Wednesday, saying the Americans’ release is not imminent, the New York Times reported. Ahmadinejad said Tuesday in an interview
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he will pardon and release the two American hikers and former UC Berkeley students detained for allegedly crossing the Iranian border more than two years ago, according to major media outlets. Ahmadinejad’s statement comes just over three weeks after Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were
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Following almost two years of detainment, UC Berkeley alumni Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer will receive their verdict from Iran’s Revolutionary Court within one week following their trial Sunday. In the days leading up to the trial, local groups have been increasing efforts to advocate for the hikers’ release. Fattal
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Sarah Shourd, a UC Berkeley alumna who was detained in an Iranian prison for over a year after being accused of spying with two other alumni, will be speaking on campus Sunday. Hosted by the Berkeley Lecture Series, Shourd will appear with the families of Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer,
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The mothers of two UC Berkeley alumni who have been held in an Iranian prison for nearly two years began a hunger strike last Thursday, vowing to only drink water in an attempt to bring further attention to their sons’ detainment and to bring them home. According to a statement
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The latest scheduled hearing for three UC Berkeley alumni Iranian officials have accused of spying was again postponed last Wednesday. Neither Shane Bauer nor Josh Fattal — who have been detained in Iran for nearly two years — was ever brought to the courtroom Wednesday for the scheduled hearing in
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