Amy Goodman
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After 2 Years in Iran Prison, Jailed US Hikers Finally Freed. Interview with Esther Kaplan
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September 21, 2011
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2:31Now Playingwww.DemocracyNow.org - After two years in Iranian custody on charges of espionage, Americans Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were released on $1 million bail earlier today and handed over to Swiss diplomats. For more, Democracy Now! spoke with Esther Kaplan of the Nation Institute, a colleague of the hikers who last year published an extensive investigation reporting that the pair, along with Sarah Shroud, were arrested on the Iraqi side of the Iran-Iraq border, not in Iran as the Iranian government has claimed.
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