Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/23
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Egyptian policemen sit in front of Egyptian employees of several pro-democracy groups charged with using foreign funds to foment unrest during their trial in Cairo, Egypt on February 26, 2012. Egypt has lifted a travel ban for seven Americans charged with fomenting unrest by working for illegally funded pro-democracy groups, signaling an end to the worst crisis in Egypt-US relations in 30 years. Khalil Hamra/AP
Egyptian protesters chant anti-military ruling slogans during a trial of employees of pro-democracy groups charged with using foreign funds to foment unrest in Cairo, Egypt on February 26, 2012. Khalil Hamra/AP
Workers from the non-governmental organization National Democratic Institute, or NDI, wait as Egyptian officials raid their office in Cairo. Egyptian investigating judges referred 43 NGO workers, including 19 Americans, to trial before a criminal court for allegedly being involved in banned activities and illegally receiving foreign funds, security officials said. Mohammed Asad/AP
US citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, accused by Iran of spying for the CIA, sits in Tehran's revolutionary court, in Iran, in this Dec. 27, 2011 video frame grab image made from the Iranian broadcaster IRIB TV. An Iranian court has convicted Hekmati and sentenced him to death, state radio reported, Jan. 9, 2012. Iran charges that Hekmati received special training and served at US military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran for his alleged intelligence mission. IRIB/AP
Iranian-American Amir Mirza Hekmati, who has been sentenced to death by Iran's Revolutionary Court on the charge of spying for the CIA, holds a weapon with US soldiers in this undated still image taken from video in an undisclosed location made available to Reuters TV on January 9, 2012. Iran's Revolutionary Court has sentenced an Iranian-American man to death for spying for the CIA, the student news agency quoted a judiciary official as saying. Hekmati, a 28-year-old of Iranian descent born in Arizona, was arrested in December. Iran's highest court must confirm all death sentences. Reuters TV/Reuters
Paroled US activist Lori Berenson waits at the international airport before boarding a plane to the US in Lima, Peru, Monday Dec. 19, 2011. Berenson, a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology student, was put on parole in 2010 while serving a 20-year sentence for aiding the leftist rebel Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. Frank Bajak/AP
US citizen Lori Berenson (C.) pushes her son Salvador Apari in his stroller, accompanied by an unidentified woman from the US embassy and surrounded by the media, before traveling to US, at Lima's airport December 19, 2011. Berenson, a New Yorker who spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons for aiding Marxist insurgents in Peru, cleared a bureaucratic hurdle so she could take her first trip home since her 1995 arrest, officials said. Pilar Olivares/Reuters
Rhoda Berenson, the mother of Lori Berenson, speaks to the media while awaiting the arrival of her daughter from Lima, Peru, with her son Salvador Apari at Newark Liberty International Airport, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011 in Newark, N.J. Berenson said she fully intended to return to Peru by the court-ordered deadline of Jan. 11. Henny Ray Abrams/AP
Three American students are displayed to the camera by Egyptian authorities following their arrest during protests in Cairo, where an Egyptian official said they were throwing firebombs at security forces. A spokeswoman for the American University in Cairo identified the students as Luke Gates, a 21-year-old Indiana University student from Bloomington, Ind.; Derrik Sweeney, a 19-year-old Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Mo.; and Gregory Porter, a 19 year-old Drexel University student from Glenside, Pa. Egyptian TV/AP
Derrik Sweeney, of Jefferson City, Mo., smiles along side his mother, Joy Sweeney, after arriving at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in St. Louis. A court ordered the three to be released Thursday, Nov. 24. American universities send more than 250,000 students to study abroad every year, thrusting them into one of the most exciting periods of their lives with a heavy dose of maternal advice: See the local culture, but be careful. Don't get in any tight spots. Avoid political demonstrations. It's advice that can be forgotten in the heady political ferment of countries like Egypt. Jeff Roberson/AP
Thai-born American Joe Gordon looks out from a cell after his arrival at a criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 8. The court sentenced Gordon to two and a half years in prison for defaming the country's royal family by translating excerpts of a locally banned biography of the king and posting them online. Apichart Weerawong/AP
Joe Gordon, with his ankles shackled, gestures as he arrives at a criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 8. Gordon was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for translating, 'The King Never Smiles,' a banned biography by Paul Handley. Apichart Weerawong/AP
Amanda Knox cries following the verdict that overturns her conviction and acquits her of murdering her British roomate Meredith Kercher, at the Perugia court, Italy. An Italian appeals court has thrown out Amanda Knox's murder conviction and ordered the young American freed after nearly four years in prison for the death of her British roommate. Knox collapsed in tears after the verdict was read out. Her co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, also was cleared of killing 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in 2007. Lapresse/AP
Conservative protesters hold portraits of US journalists Euna Lee (l.) and Laura Ling, who have been detained by North Korea, during an anti-North Korea rally demanding for the release of the journalists, in Seoul, South Korea, June 4, 2009. North Korea put two US journalists on trial on charges of illegally entering the state with 'hostile intent,' in a case that could worsen tension with Washington after Pyongyang's nuclear test last week. The Korean characters on the signs read, 'Release now!' Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters
American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee disembark from the plane that brought them back from North Korea in Burbank, Calif., Aug. 5, 2009. Former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to release the two women after months of detention. Danny Moloshok/Reuters
Shane Bauer (c.) one of the US hikers who was held in Iran on charges of espionage, hugs fiance Sarah Shourd (r.) upon his arrival in Muscat after his release from Tehran's Evin prison on September 21. Three hikers, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd were arrested by Iranian forces in July 2009 near the unmarked border with Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, on suspicion of spying after crossing into Iran from Iraq. Jumana El Heloueh/Reuters
Cindy Hickey (r.) mother of Shane Bauer and Nora Shourd, mother of Sarah Shourd, hug their children at the Esteghlal hotel in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2010. Iran detained the three Americans, Sarah Shourd, her boyfriend, Shane Bauer, and their friend Josh Fattal, along the Iraqi border and have accused them of spying. Their relatives rejected the accusation and said the three were hiking in Iraq's scenic and largely peaceful northern Kurdish region. Press TV/AP
From left, Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, the three University of California at Berkeley graduates who were imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges, wait to speak at an 'Occupy Oakland' rally on Oct. 17, in Oakland, Calif. Ben Margot/AP
Heather Mercer (c.) hugs her mother, Deborah Oddy, with her father, John Mercer, nearby after arriving and clearing customs at Washington Dulles International Airport on Nov. 25, 2001, in Dulles, Va. Mercer, and Dayna Curry, two American aid workers who were jailed by the Taliban in Afghanistan, arrived at the Washington area airport amid cheers and tearful hugs from family and friends. Michael Lutzky/The Washington Post/AP
President George W. Bush, walks with Heather Mercer (r.) and Dayna Curry prior to speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House on Nov. 26, 2001, in Washington, where he welcomed home the two aid workers who were held captive for three months by Afghanistan's Taliban. Andy Nelson/TCSM
US citizen Lori Berenson enters a courtroom at Santa Monica Prison in Lima May 25, 2010. Berenson, serving a 20-year sentence in Peru for aiding leftist guerrillas, was granted parole after some 15 years in prison and deported. Justice Palace/Reuters
US citizen Lori Berenson refuses to speak with reporters while arriving home after being released from prison in Lima, Peru, Nov. 8, 2010. Berenson, who served three-quarters of a 20-year sentence for collaborating with leftist rebels, walked free for the second time after a judge reinstated her parole initially ruled last May. AP
Carlos Quijas (l.) and Shohn Huckabee, US citizens and inmates at the jail in Ciudad Juarez talk to Reuters on September 24, 2010. Both were arrested last December while driving back to El Paso after visiting family in Ciudad Juarez and were sentenced to five years in prison, guilty of drug trafficking. They appealed their conviction saying they are innocent and accused soldiers of planting suitcases of marijuana in their vehicle. Alejandro Bringas/Reuters
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/23
In Pictures: Huge hurricanes
In Pictures: Oh to be young again, Mr. President!
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/22
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
In Pictures: What happened to the green revolution in Iran?
In Pictures: Sandy: Chronicle of an unrelenting storm
Iran's supreme court threw out a death sentence Monday against Amir Mirza Hekmati, an Iranian-American convicted of spying by a lower court and sentenced to be executed.
Iran's supreme court on Monday dismissed an execution sentence passed by a revolutionary court against an Iranian-American national accused of spying for the CIA, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
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