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The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A year ago, the pioneering Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan - known online as "Hoder" - was taken into custody in Tehran , accused of being an Israeli spy. Over the years, Hoder had helped spark Iran's vibrant blogging community , and along the way he contributed to the Guardian on a number of occasions ( here's his profile page ) and visited our old offices in Clerkenwell...
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Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal were arrested during what their families describe as a hiking expedition near the Iran-Iraq border. U.S. officials urge Tehran to 'exercise compassion.' Three Americans arrested by Iranian authorities last summer during what their families describe as a hiking expedition along the Iran-Iraq border now face espionage charges, a leading Iranian...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal were arrested during what their families describe as a hiking expedition near the Iran-Iraq border. U.S. officials urge Tehran to 'exercise compassion.' Three Americans arrested by Iranian authorities last summer during what their families describe as a hiking expedition along the Iran-Iraq border now face espionage charges, a leading Iranian...
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Black Political Thought (Free subscription) | yesterday
... The United States has sent strong messages to Iran urging the release of the three hikers, calling Iranian authorities to exercises "compassion" toward the three Americans. Some Iranian authorities have linked the illegal entry of the three to the unrest that erupted after the country's presidential elections in June, which was the worst unrest the country...
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The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tehran, Iran (AHN) – Three Americans detained in Tehran since July were charged with spying Monday by Iranian authorities. The charges come a day after family and friends of the hikers held vigils around the United States marking the 100th day of their incarceration, and two weeks after a U.S. scholar was sentenced to prison by [...]
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the three detained Americans in Iran,” Tehran general prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi told IRNA.Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggested in an interview with the American television network NBC in September that the Americans’ release might be linked to the release of Iranian diplomats he said were being held by US troops in Iraq.Under Iran’s Islamic sharia law, espionage...
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Boots and Sabers (Free subscription) | yesterday
Might I suggest that their best defense is that they are too stupid to be spies? Three young Americans detained in Iran over alleged illegal entry are to be charged with espionage, Iranian state news agency Irna says. Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal have been held by Iranian authorities since the end of July. The trio are thought to have crossed a poorly marked border...
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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
... we would renew our request on behalf of these three young people and their families that the Iranian government exercise compassion and release them so they can return home, and we will continue to make that case.". The three Americans have been detained on alleged illegal entry and are to be charged with espionage, according to the Iranian state news agency Irna. Shane Bauer,...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... television network NBC in September that the Americans' release might be linked to the release of Iranian diplomats he said were being held by US troops in Iraq.The United States has sent strong messages to Iran urging the release of the three hikers, calling Iranian authorities to exercises "compassion" towards the three Americans.Some Iranian authorities have...
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ChattahBox (Free subscription) | yesterday
(ChattahBox)—Three American hikers, taken into custody by Iranian authorities in July, as they were hiking near the border in Kurdistan, have now been charged with espionage, according to a report from Reuters. The families of the three Americans, all graduates of the University of California, Berkeley, just recently met with Secretary of State Clinton to [...]
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposition street demonstrations last week, the country's official news agency reported. One of the reporters is an Iranian who works for Agence France-Presse.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Iranian authorities thought to be holding 31-year-old as part of a crackdown on foreign reporters Iranian authorities are believed to be holding a Danish journalism student after he was arrested by the Iranian authorities as part of a crackdown on foreign reporters. Niels Krogsgaard, 31, was reported missing on Wednesday after attending a rally organised by...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposition street demonstrations this week, the country's official news
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
MINNEAPOLIS — The mother of one of three U.S. hikers accused of espionage by Iranian authorities said Tuesday her son would "fall on the floor laughing" at the suggestion he is a spy.Cindy Hickey of Pine City, Minn., told The Associated Press that the hikers' families are trying to avoid getting pulled into the tense relationship between the U.S. and Iran and only want to keep stressing...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is urging Iran to show compassion and release three Americans held since July for apparently crossing into Iranian territory while hiking in Northern Iraq. Iran says the three are being charged with espionage.
