TEHRAN (AFP) – US hiker Sarah Shourd, freed on bail last year, has been summoned for trial in Iran along with her two American friends who remain in custody, the prosecutor general said on Monday.
“Sarah Shourd, one of the three Americans accused and who was released on bail, has been summoned to be present at the February 6 trial,” Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie said, quoted by state news agency IRNA.
Iran has set February 6 as the trial date for the three US hikers charged with espionage after they reportedly entered the Islamic republic from northern Iraq.
Shourd, her fiance Shane Bauer and fellow hiker Josh Fattal maintain they strayed across the unmarked border with Iraq innocently when they were detained on July 31, 2009 by Iranian authorities.
