Shane Bauer - The journalist the world forgot

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In 2009 a young freelance journalist, Shane Bauer, was taken hostage by a rogue Iranian Revolutionary Guard Unit whilst holidaying in Iraqi Kurdistan. For 9 months his profession was hidden from the media. Iran. 14/06/2010 (Images taken 2008-2009)

in Our World, on the 14th of June 2010

Shane Bauer on assignment in Iraq.

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On July 31st 2009, 3 US citizens, Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, rang a friend's mobile phone to say they had been surrounded by Iranian Guards and were being taken somewhere in a vehicle.

Two weeks later, Hilary Clinton announced the 3 were being held in the notorious Evin Prison in Iran.

On 16th August 2009, a UK newspaper, the Daily Telegraph reported:
"American hikers arrested for 'illegal entry' into Iran 'were snatched in Iraq in cross-border raid"

For whatever reasons this story wasn't pursued by the media.

Instead, families friends and colleagues were encouraged to put out a story that Shane and his 2 friends were foolish hikers who might have accidentally crossed the border.

For the last 3 months we have been discovering the truth behind the 'official media story' and who Shane Bauer really is and why he is still in prison.

See Shane Bauer's website at http://www.shanebauer.net/