{"id":676,"date":"2011-09-23T09:46:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T09:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnews.harouta.sg-host.com\/2011\/09\/23\/iran-frees-hikers-many-journalists-remain-imprisoned\/"},"modified":"2022-05-30T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:22:27","slug":"iran-frees-hikers-many-journalists-remain-imprisoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jff.am\/en\/2011\/09\/23\/iran-frees-hikers-many-journalists-remain-imprisoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran frees hikers, many journalists remain imprisoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-body\">The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the news that U.S. journalist Shane Bauer and his friend Josh Fattal were released today on US$1 million bail by the Iranian government after two years in Tehran&#8217;s Evin Prison, according to news reports.<\/div>\n<div id=\"more\" class=\"asset-more\">\n<p>&#8220;We welcome the news that Bauer and Fattal have finally been released after two years of unjust imprisonment,&#8221; said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. &#8220;On this day we must bring attention to the dozens of Iranian journalists that languish away in jails across the country facing a lack of due process and abuse at the hands of prison guards. We call on Tehran to release these unjustly imprisoned journalists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"asset-body\">The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the news that U.S. journalist Shane Bauer and his friend Josh Fattal were released today on US$1 million bail by the Iranian government after two years in Tehran&#8217;s Evin Prison, according to news reports.<\/div>\n<div id=\"more\" class=\"asset-more\">\n<p>&#8220;We welcome the news that Bauer and Fattal have finally been released after two years of unjust imprisonment,&#8221; said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. &#8220;On this day we must bring attention to the dozens of Iranian journalists that languish away in jails across the country facing a lack of due process and abuse at the hands of prison guards. We call on Tehran to release these unjustly imprisoned journalists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jnews.am\/en\/node\/1460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iranian authorities detained Bauer, Fattal, and Sarah&nbsp;Shourd, while they were hiking<\/a> on the border with Iraqi Kurdistan in July 2009. Bauer a&nbsp;correspondent&nbsp;for New America Media, was not on assignment at the time of his arrest.&nbsp;Shourd&nbsp;was released in September while Bauer and Fattal had been sentenced last month to 8 years imprisonment on charges of espionage and &#8220;illegally&#8221; crossing the Iranian border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/09\/iran-frees-hikers-many-journalists-remain-imprison.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the news that U.S. journalist Shane Bauer and his friend Josh Fattal were released today on US$1 million bail by the Iranian government after two years in Tehran&#8217;s Evin Prison, according to news reports. &#8220;We welcome the news that Bauer and Fattal have finally been released after two years&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jff.am\/en\/2011\/09\/23\/iran-frees-hikers-many-journalists-remain-imprisoned\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran frees hikers, many journalists remain imprisoned<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2223],"tags":[],"aboutus":[],"home":[],"authors":[],"position":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-hy","category-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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