Iranian Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said Sunday that the country is ready to release one of the three detained U.S. female hikers on bail of 500,000 U.S. dollars. Sarah Shourd's detention sentence has turned into a 500,000-dollar bail, Dolatabadi told a press conference, adding the detention sentence of the two other hikers has been extended.
The cases of the three Americans have been sent to the court, " an indictment has been issued for the three U.S. nationals," ISNA quoted Dolatabadi as saying.
The three Americans, Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, were arrested in Iran on July 31 last year after they illegally entered the country from its western borders. Shourd was to have been freed on Saturday, however, Iran halted the release that day.
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