Sunday
Aug282011
The Latest from Iran (28 August) It's the Ecology, Stupid
Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 6:29 | James Miller in EA Iran, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran An overview of the ecological problems facing Lake Orumiyeh in northwest Iran
1420 GMT:The US Hikers. The lawyer for US citizens Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, sentenced earlier this month to eight-year prison sentences on charges of espionage and illegal entry has said that he has filed an appeal.
Fattal and Bauer were arrested, along with American Sarah Shourd, who in July 2009 while hiking along the Iran-Iraq border. They had 20 days to appeal the sentence.
Shourd was freed on $500,000 last September and did not return for trial.