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Sep 21, 2011 Two freed U.S. hikers head for Tehran airport By Douglas Stanglin <http://content.usatoday.com/topics/reporter/Douglas+Stanglin> , USA TODAY Updated 12m ago Two U.S. hikers jailed in Iran two years ago on espionage charges have been freed on $500,000 bail. Update at 10:16 a.m. ET: Two Americans jailed in Iran as spies have been released from Tehran's prison after more than two years in custody, the AP reports. AP reporters saw a convoy of vehicles with Swiss and Omani diplomats leaving Evin prison with the freed Americans, heading for Tehran international airport. Update at 10 a.m. ET: Reuters reports that Bauer and Fattal and heading to the airport, according to the BBC. Update at 8:14 a.m. ET: The BBC reports <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15000563> that Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have been handed over to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which represents U.S. interests in Iran. Update at 7:47 a.m. ET: CNN reports that the pair have been released from prison, quoting an unnamed U.S. official. Update at 7:39 a.m. ET: Iranian state TV reports <http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200375.html> that the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic Iran "has confirmed the release of two U.S. nationals, who had been convicted of illegal entry and espionage in Iran, on bail." Here is Press TV's report: Branch 36 of Tehran's Appeals Court has agreed to reduce the detention sentences of the two U.S. nationals and instead release them on a bail of $500,000 each, a statement released by Iran's Judiciary said on Wednesday. Shane Michael Bauer and Joshua Felix Fattal had earlier been sentenced by Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolution Court to eight years in prison on charges of illegal entry and espionage. Sarah Emily Shourd, who had also been detained along with Bauer and Fattal, was released in September 2010 on a $500,000 bail. Bauer, Fattal and Shourd were arrested on Iranian territory in July 2009 after illegally crossing the border from the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdistan region. They were later charged with espionage after the Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi found "compelling evidence" that the three U.S. citizens had been cooperating with US intelligence agencies. Update at 7:26 a.m. ET: Iranian State TV says it "has learned" that the Iranian government has released American hikers Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal <http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200356.html> , who have been held for almost two years for alleged illegal entry into Iran and espionage. The lawyer for the pair says only that a deal has been struck for the release of the pair, the Associated Press reports. Iranian attorney Masoud Shafiei said he planned to go to Tehran's Evin prison to begin the procedure for the release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. "The case is over," Shafiei said. "The court has ordered that they be freed on bail," he added. Shafiei said the bail of $500,000 for each of the men was posted after some last-minute bank problems were resolved, the AP reports. He did not say who put up the money, The two were arrested along the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009 and sentenced last month to eight years each in prison. A third American arrested with them, Sarah Shourd, was freed last year on bail. Original post: Fox News quotes an unidentified State Department source as saying two jailed American hikers imprisoned in Iran have been released <http://www.foxnews.com/> to the Oman envoy. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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