MOMS PLEAD FOR HIKER SONS’ RELEASE ON @CNN
“We’re so happy Sarah’s home—but it’s our turn to have our kids back with us.”
~ Laura Fattal, Mother of Hiker Josh Fattal
REPUBLISHED FROM CNN AMERICAN MORNING—amFIX BLOG:
Posted: 09:00 AM ET Wednesday, September 15, 2010
(CNN) The mothers of two U.S. men still being held in Iran told CNN they are hopeful their sons will soon be able to join recently released detainee Sarah Shourd and enjoy their freedom too.
“What we really want of course is there release,” Laura Fattal said on CNN’s American Morning. “We’re so happy Sarah’s home – but it’s our turn to have our kids back with us.”
Laura Fattal appeared with Cindy Hicky on Wednesday’s American Morning to appeal to Iran to release their two sons who have been detained for more than a year. They spoke out a day after Sarah Shourd was released from Iran and reunited with her mother in Muscat, Oman after Iranian authorities released her from a Tehran prison where she had been held for 14 months.
The three Americans were detained after they allegedly strayed across an unmarked border into Iran while hiking in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Iran accused the three of spying, a charge the United States and the hikers have denied.
Shourd, 32, left behind fellow Americans Shane Bauer, 28, who is her fiance, and their friend, Josh Fattal, 28.
Laura Fattal made a plea to Iran and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad toelease the two men to end a situation that she says should have been avoided from the beginning
“Iran knows they have three innocent hikers, one of which they released,” Fattal told CNN.
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