Josh Fattal

Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal ran down the steps of their plane at an airport in Oman rushing into the arms of their families, who’ve been fighting for their freedom for the 26-months they’ve been imprisoned in Iran. The government in Tehran...

Declaring that they were detained because of their nationality, not their actions, two Americans held for more than two years in an Iranian prison came home Sunday, ending a diplomatic and personal ordeal with a sharp rebuke of the country that had...

Home at last for the two American hikers freed from an Iranian prison last week. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer were charged with spying two years ago after crossing the Iranian border. The two landed at New York’s JFK today with big grin, happy to be...

The wait for another tense court verdict is on. This one is overseas in the case of the American hikers that were detained in Iran. It happened two years ago. That's when Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd were hiking along Iran's border and were...

I rejoice with the friends and families of Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal as their ordeal ended in Evin Prison in Iran. As Mr. Bauer said at the Oman Airport, "Two years is too long in a prison. We sincerely hope for the freedom of other political...

For her Thursday column, Meghan Daum writes about the American hikers who were imprisoned in 2009 when they accidentally found themselves on the wrong side of the Iran-Iraq border. More to the point, Daum talks about the contempt for these......

Two American hikers taken into custody in 2009 on charges of espionage for crossing into Iran from Iraqi Kurdistan are to stand trial July 31, the second anniversary of their arrest, their lawyer said Monday. "I've just received an official......

During the nearly 14 months Sarah Shourd spent in an Iranian prison cell, she went on hunger strike four times. It was the only way she had to protest her prolonged detention. On Friday, she fasted again, this time in......

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — In addition to sending a letter to Iran's supreme leader seeking the release of two American hikers, Muhammad Ali's wife says the boxing champ is willing to go there to help make it happen. But Lonnie Ali says such a visit...

U.S. State Department spokesman PJ Crowley urged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to celebrate his 55th birthday by releasing detained Americans Joshua Fattal and Shane Bauer and sending them home in a posting to the micro-blogging site Twitter....

Masoud Shafii, the Iranian lawyer representing the two Americans -- Joshua Fattal and Shane Bauer -- held in the Islamic Republic on espionage charges, told Babylon & Beyond in an interview Sunday that he might resign as defense counsel for......