{"id":417476,"date":"2011-05-04T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/04\/us-woman-refuses-iran-spy-trial\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T17:02:08","slug":"us-woman-refuses-iran-spy-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/us-woman-refuses-iran-spy-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"US woman refuses Iran spy trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"41.3513513514\"><span><span>4 May 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>12:50 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>US woman Sarah Shourd, who was released by Iran after being detained with two fellow US hikers in 2009, has said she will not return there to stand trial.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Shourd was to stand trial next week for espionage alongside her friends, who are still being held in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>She told AP news agency she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and returning would be &#8220;far too traumatic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She and the other hikers have said they unknowingly crossed into the country while hiking in July 2009.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-13283646\" title=\"US woman refuses Iran spy trial\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US woman refuses Iran spy trial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 4 May 2011 Last updated at 12:50 ET US woman Sarah Shourd, who was released by Iran after being detained with two fellow US hikers in 2009, has said she will not return there to stand trial. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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