US hikers freed: Timeline of key events

The two US hikers remaining in Iranian custody, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, were released today after more than two years of detention. Here are the key points in their saga.

June 24, 2010 – Nabbed in Iraq?

The Nation reports that two eyewitnesses to the hikers’ arrest from a nearby Kurdish village say that Shourd, Fattal, and Bauer were on Iraqi territory when they were arrested and that Iranian border guards crossed into Iraq to arrest them. The border region is disputed territory and has been the site of sporadic clashes between Iran and the Kurds.

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