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Iran 'releases female US hiker Sarah Shourd'

Iran has released an American woman held for more than a year on suspicion of spying, reports from Iran say.
Sarah Shourd was detained near Iran's border with Iraq on 31 July 2009, along with Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal.
The Tehran chief prosecutor said at the weekend that Ms Shourd would be freed when $500,000 (£325,000) bail was paid, and could leave the country.
Ms Shourd's lawyer said she had been released and was heading to the Swiss embassy in Tehran, Reuters reported.

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"I am inside Evin prison, doing her paperwork. She has been released and is heading towards the Swiss Embassy," Sarah Shourd's lawyer Masoud Shafie said.
The families of the three hikers - who are all Americans - say they crossed the poorly-demarcated border by mistake while hiking in the mountainous northern Iraqi region of Khormal.
Officials in Tehran said they had "suspicious aims" and that they intended to put them on trial for espionage.
Serious health problems
Mr Bauer and Mr Fattal are still being held at Evin prison.
US officials have said the three - all graduates of the University of California, Berkeley - are completely innocent.
News of Ms Shourd's release comes days after Tehran chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi said he had objected to a plan announced by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to release Ms Shourd at the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan because legal procedures had "not been completed".
The BBC's Middle East correspondent, Jon Leyne, says a number of people facing trial in Iran have taken the option of leaving the country and forfeiting their bail, rather than risk facing a long prison term.
After seeing her in May, Ms Shourd's mother said she was being denied treatment for serious health problems, including a lump in her breast and precancerous cervical cells.
The three friends were all said to be undernourished and depressed after more than a year in virtual solitary confinement.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11299867
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