Wednesday, 12 May 2010

News Special: Iran finally grants visas for Hiker's families to visit

Moms of imprisoned UC Berkeley hikers to get visas to visit Iran

89.3 KPCC
Iran has agreed to let the mothers of three jailed hikers visit their children. The former UC Berkeley students have been imprisoned for nine months with ...

Iran To Allow Families To Visit Jailed US Hikers

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - Nikola Krastev 
This is not the first time that it has been rumored that the hikers' mothers will be allowed to visittheir loved ones. But it is the first time that the ...

Iran will allow hikers' families to visit

CNN - Susan Candiotti
(CNN) -- Families of three American hikers detained in Iran will be allowed to visit them, Iranian state media reported Monday. State-run Press TV did not ...

Iranian reports: Families of hikers can visit them

Politico (blog) - ‎May 10, 2010‎
The families of three Americans imprisoned in Iran for over nine months will be permitted to visit them, Iran's Press TV reported. Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal ...

Iran allows jailed American hikers family visit

ABC Online - Anne Barker - ‎May 10, 2010‎
The families of three American hikers arrested in Iran last year have been given permission to visit them in jail....

Iran says families of detained US hikers may visit them

BBC News - ‎May 10, 2010‎
No date for any visit has yet been set. The hikers are friends who attended the prestigious University of California, Berkeley.

American hikers held in Iran allowed family visit

Ynetnews - ‎May 10, 2010‎
The families of three American hikers detained in Iran since July have been allowed to visit them, Iran's state television reported on Monday. ...

Mothers of Hikers Jailed in Iran Allowed to Visit

NBC Los Angeles - Todd Reed
Iran's foreign minister announced Monday that the mothers of the three jailed hikers will be allowed to visit their children as part of a "humanitarian" ...

Mothers may visit detained American hikers in Iran

Examiner.com - Jeff Baenen 
The Iranian government on Monday claimed to have granted permission to the mothers of three detained American hikers to visit them in July. ...

Families visit detained Americans in Iran: Iranian TV

Reuters - Mark Heinrich - ‎May 10, 2010‎
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Mothers of three American hikers detained in Iran since July will be allowed to visit them, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki ...

Iran Lets Mothers Visit 3 Detained Americans

AHN | All Headline News
The families of the hikers, however, said after the last visit by Swiss diplomats on April 22 that Bauer, 27, and Shourd, 31, were in poor health. ...

Iran says mothers can visit 3 jailed Americans

The Associated Press - Ali Akbar Dareini - ‎May 10, 2010‎
Bauer, a freelance journalist, had been hired to cover the Kurdish elections in Iraq, but his family said the hikingtrip was a vacation. ...

Iran To Allow Jailed Hikers' Moms Humanitarian Visits

NPR (blog) - Frank James
An article in IRNA, the Iranian news agency, reports that the decision to allow the visit was made before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited New ...

Captive hiker's father hopeful about mothers' Iran visit

KARE - Boyd Huppert 
The families and the US government say the hikers crossed the border into Iran by accident. Iran has said it plans to try them as spies. ...

Iran may permit the mothers of three jailed US hikers to visit them

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Kevin Diaz
Shourd, his 31-year-old girlfriend, and Fattal, 27, a friend, accompanied him on the hiking trip. According to government officials on Iran's Press TV, ...

Iran confirms mothers can visit 3 jailed Americans

The Associated Press - Ali Akbar Dareini - ‎May 10, 2010‎
The families of the three graduates of the University of California at Berkeley say they were hiking in the scenic Kurdistan region of northern Iraq and ...

Nominee opposed...Wall Street climbs...Iran: Mothers may visit hikers

9&10 News - ‎May 10, 2010‎
The hikers have been detained nine months. DETROIT (AP) — Nine Midwestern militia members accused of plotting against the government will have to stay ...

US hikers seen as Iranian bargaining chips

National - Michael Theodoulou
Michael Perez / AP Photo Iran has promised to allow the distraught mothers of three American hikers arrested along the Iraqi border nine months ago to visit ...

WORLD BRIEFS

Newsday (subscription)
Iran will allow the mothers of three American hikers arrested along the Iraqi border in July to visit them in a Tehran prison, the foreign minister ...

Iran Issues Visas To Mothers of Detained U.S. Hikers

Democracy Now - ‎8 hours ago‎
The mothers are expected to travel soon to Iran to visit their children for the first time since their arrest. Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal ...

Mothers Will Be Allowed to Visit Detained Berkeley Grad Hikers in Iran

SFist - Jay Barmann - ‎May 10, 2010‎
... that the mothers of the three hikers will be issued visas by Iran's UN mission and will be allowed to visit their children on "humanitarian" grounds. ...

Iran OKs Visit by Moms of Detained US Hikers

Newser - Nick McMaster - ‎May 10, 2010‎
... PM CDT| Share (Newser) – Iran will allow the mothers of the three American hikers who have been in custody for nearly a year to visit their children. ...

US Hikers Detained in Iran to Get Family Visits

BusinessWeek - Ali Sheikholeslami - ‎May 10, 2010‎
May 10 (Bloomberg) -- The families of three US hikers who are being detained in Iran will be able to visit them soon, Iran's state-run ...

Iran to Allow Mothers of Arrested US Hikers to Visit

KYW1060.com - Ian Bush - ‎May 10, 2010‎
by KYW's Ian Bush Three American hikers detained in Iran since last summer -- including one with ties to Montgomery County -- will be allowed visits from ...

Iran grants visas to mothers of three detained US citizens

Tehran Times
The mothers of these three people have asked for permission to visit their children in Iran, and in a humanitarian act, the Islamic Republic decided to ...

US prisoners in Iran jail told their mothers can visit

Kuala Lumpur News 
Iran has not yet informed the US government if formal charges will be laid against the three, who have claimed they were only hiking on the border of ...

Detained Hikers Could Be Allowed Visits From Family Members

KEYC 
Us hikers detained in Iran could soon get family visits.According to an Iranian tv channel, the families have been given permission to visit the Tehran ...

Moms of 3 Americans jailed in Iran wait for visas

The Associated Press - Patrick Condon
They're waiting for the moment they get the all-clear that they can go visit their children. Iran's foreign minister said on state television Monday that ...

Iran To Allow Family Visits For Detained US Hikers

RTT News - ‎May 10, 2010‎
Iran will allow the families of the three US hikers being held under detention in Iran since last July on charges of entering the country illegally to visit ...

Berkeley grads detained in Iran may get visitors

Berkeleyside (blog) - Frances Dinkelspiel 
The mothers of the three UC Berkeley graduates who have been detained in Iran since July will soon be able tovisit their children. ...

Iranian state tv says families of three American hikers have visited them

Thaindian.com - ‎May 10, 2010‎
TEHRAN (BNO NEWS) — The families of three detained American hikers have been allowed to visit them in prison, state television reported on Monday, ...
 

U.S. mothers can visit detained hikers

Edmonton Journal
The three were detained on July 31 last year after straying across Iran's border during a hiking trip in Iraq's Kurdistan region. ...
 

Moms of US detainees to get Iran visas

Press TV
"The mothers of these three individuals can visit Iran's mission to receive the visas and travel to Iran," Mottaki said during a live television interview ...
 

Iran Allows Detained Americans to Meet Family Members

Fars News Agency
... as saying in an e-mailed statement that independent Iranian lawyer Massoud Shafie'i will represent the three hikers and work for their release. ...
 

Families of jailed hikers face bleak Mother's Day

San Jose Mercury News - Steve Karnowski - ‎May 8, 2010‎
Nor have they been granted their promised visas to visit their children in prison in Iran. "We've been told multiple times they've been granted but when ...
 

Iran foreign minister: Mothers of imprisoned US hikers can visit

San Jose Mercury News - Sean Maher - ‎May 10, 2010‎
They applied for their visas to visit Iran in early January, Shourd said, and several promising messages — that the visas had been approved, that they were ...
 

Iran issues visa to mothers's of arrested US citizens

unnindia - ‎14 hours ago‎
According to Muttaki, earlier parents of three arrested US citizens appealed to obtain permission to visit their children. We have instructed the Iranian ...
 

Iran TV says families of 3 detained hikers can visit them in jail

USA Today - ‎May 10, 2010‎
An Iranian state television channel said Monday that the families of three Americans arrested along the Iraqi border in July will be allowed to visit them ...
 

Iran to issue visa for mothers of 3 jailed US nationals

ISNA
... Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said mothers of three American nationals arrested due to illegal entry to Iran can apply for visa to visit their children. ...
 

Iran grants visa for mothers of 3 US citizens

News.Az 
... agreed that visas would be issued for the mothers of these three people so that they would be able to come to Iran and visit their sons and daughter. ...
 

Hikers' moms ask Iran for compassion on Mother's Day

CNN - Wayne Drash - ‎May 7, 2010‎
The avid hikers strayed across an unmarked border into Iran during a hiking trip in a largely peaceful area of Iraq, the families say. ...
 

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KGAN - ‎May 10, 2010‎
The foreign minister says Iran is allowing the visit on humanitarian grounds. Their families say Swiss diplomats who visited the hikers last month say two ...
 

Ahmadinejad issues visas to mothers with children in Iran jail

Zimbabwe Star - sister Siddiqui 
... President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to provide mothers of Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd a visa to visit Iran to see their sons and daughter. ...

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