Iran denies decision made over jailed US 'spy' hikers

[Gerald]

Iran has denied a decision has been made about the release of two US hikers jailed for spying, officials say.

Iran's English language Press TV quoted an official as saying the two Americans, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, would stay in prison "a bit longer".

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had announced on Tuesday that the two would be freed in "a couple of days".

They were arrested in 2009 and sentenced to eight years in prison on espionage charges last year.

They claimed that they strayed into Iran accidentally while hiking near the border with Iraq.

"While denying [the] release of two Americans accused of espionage, the public relations of the judiciary announces that the request of the lawyer to post bail and free them is being studied by the case's judge," said a statement posted on the judiciary website on Wednesday.

"Any information in this regard will be issued by the judiciary and any release of information from other sources is not valid," it added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14911608


Note: 14 September 2011 Last updated at 09:32 GMT

[Herr-Berbunch]

Is it me, or does anybody else see a couple of easy issues here.


1. Don't go hiking in Iraq.

2. If you must do 1. then you make sure you know damn well where you are, especially on a boarder region like this.


Or you could just be a really crap spy. :hmmm: Unless your mission is to check out the Iranian judiciary and prisons.

[Gerald]

The question has been raised before, what they have done is idiotic to hitchhike when there are so many other countries....:yep: