Jailed Hiker Meets with Ahmadinejad
The AP reports:
NEW YORK — Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans arrested last year while hiking near the Iran-Iraq border, met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday to plead for the release of her still-imprisoned fiance and their friend.
"I'm just going to keep pushing every minute for their release on humanitarian grounds," Shourd told ABC News outside a hotel after she and her mother, Nora Shourd, met with the president.
Shourd, 32, called the encounter "a very gracious gesture and a good meeting," said Ahmadinejad seemed friendly and that it was "a very human encounter, very personal."
Family spokeswoman Samantha Topping confirmed the meeting with Ahmadinejad, who was in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. Topping declined to say what was discussed.
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