US refuses to bail out jailed hiker
The US government has said it will not pay prison bail for Sarah Shourd, a detained American who Iran says it will release on health grounds in exchange for $500,000, the US state department says. "The United States government does not fund prisoner bail," Phillip Crowley, a spokesman for the department said on Monday, reiterating the standard US policy. "We in the United States government would not be involved in that action, if that action were to be taken." Shourd was arrested along with Americans Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal in July 2009 ...
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