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Freed Hikers Hope for Release of Political Prisoners - in America
TEHRAN (Rooters) - Two U.S. citizens sentenced in Iran to eight years' jail for spying flew out of the country on Wednesday after Oman paid Bail, my a$$! Are we gonna get it back when they come back to serve the rest of their term? But the media LAP IT UP! Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, who were arrested while hiking along the Iraq-Iran border in 2009 and denied being spies, flew initially to Oman, whose officials helped secure their release. "Two years is too long in a prison," Bauer said in a brief statement on behalf of the two. "We sincerely hope for the freedom of other political prisoners and other unjustly imprisoned people in America and in Iran." I almost fell out of the car when I heard this on the radio. Send the creeps back. The release was announced last week by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said it would be a humanitarian gesture before his annual trip to the U.N. General Assembly in New York. But Iran's judiciary, controlled by rival conservative hardliners, immediately and publicly contradicted him by ruling out an imminent release. U.S. President Barack Obama said he was "thrilled" that Iran had released the two men. "It was the right thing to do. They shouldn't have been held in the first place," Obama told reporters on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. He hoped their venue would change. Posted by: Bobby 2011-09-21 |
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