SF News Iran to Free Jailed Berkeley Grad Sarah Shourd Sarah Shourd, one of the three Cal hikers arrested for crossing the Iran border, will be released on Sunday, according AP/CBS 5. "Bak Sahraei, second counselor of the UN mission confirmed Thursday
SF News Those Three Hikers in the Iranian Prison? They're Still There Almost a Year Later The mothers of the three hikers detained in Iran after accidentally tip-toeing across the border while hiking in Northern Iraq last summer have just sent a new letter to the head of the
SF News Mothers Will Be Allowed to Visit Detained Berkeley Grad Hikers in Iran When we last checked in regarding the three UC Berkeley grads who are currently being detained in Iran, they were still doing OK and their siblings had launched a probably hopeless YouTube campaign
SF News Checking In Regarding Those Hikers Still Held Hostage in Iran It's now been over six months since those three Berkeley grads were taken hostage by the Iranian government after mistakenly crossing the border into the country while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan. A couple
SF News Parents of 3 Hostages In Iran Retain Lawyer in Tehran The parents of the three U.C. Berkeley grads being held in an Iranian prison since July have retained a prominent Iranian lawyer to argue on their behalf. The three hostages -- Shane
SF News Ahmadinejad Mentions Allah, Nuclear Weapons; Fails to Mention Detained UC Berkeley Grads At U.N. He says it was "a long-shot," but Berkeley professor Ken Light was hoping Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would take a moment out from invoking Allah and predicting the downfall of global capitalism at
SF News Detained Hikers In Iran Have Bay Area Ties Three hikers (Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal) were captured by Iranian authorities last week, "after they strayed across the border while hiking in Northern Iraq in a tourist area." Two of
SF News Photos: Iran Election Protest, San Francisco, 6/20 Rumor has it there's more you can do to voice your support for Iranians protesting a fraudulent election than turning your Twitter avatar green. Take, for example, participating in a protest or a
SF News Pics from Last Night's Iranian Election Protest in Union Square Thanks to loyal SFist contributing photog Steve Rhodes, we have these pictures of the sizable protest that went down in Union Square last night, in which activists, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and local Iranian-Americans
SF News Ask SFist: Iranian Election Stuff? Hey there, did you know Iran is having some sort of brouhaha, and Twitter will single-handedly bring democracy, sunshine and gumdrops to the nation? Or something like that? Anyway, reader and activist Michael
SF News Walnuts McCain Goes To Google! From the Daily Show to the Googleplex -- Republican presidential hopeful Walnuts John McCain, struggling in the polls and in fundraising, gamely stopped by Mountain View yesterday afternoon for an hourlong forum with
SF News Now the Entire State Hates Our Freedom Laugh now, but when we hand over the state to Osama, we'll see how things go. Just envision Disneyland turning into Talibanland and having Space Mountain become Jihad Mountain where animotronic Mullah's throw
SF News Catching up With Tech News A few interesting tech stories have come out recently. Hey, we can't do Gavin all day. The Washington Post is reporting today that the State Department has come up with a new, super
misc Make Love and Not War According to the organizers, one just has to think of peace while having an orgasm at some point of the day-- it doesn't matter when. It also doesn't matter with who as there's
SF News Google Buys YouTube But what will this mean for those of us who like to peruse YouTube at work for things like Journey's "Separate Ways" video or the "Mah Nah Mah Nah" song when bored at
Arts & Entertainment And We Can See Those Fighter Planes Of course, this means there'll be the attendant complaints about noise and from the leftier side of the political spectrum, cries of glorification of the military and this is San Francisco and wasted
SF News SFist's Guide to the World Cup Part Deux- How to Pretend You Care You don't want to look like an Ugly American, now do you? So what were going to do is to provide you a handy-dandy guide of who to root for and who not
SF News Saturdays In the Park Yesterday, the Board of Supes approved by a 7-4 vote a measure to close off part of Kennedy Drive on Saturdays just as it is on Sundays. Well, for a "six-month" trial run
SF News Malkin-vich, Malkin-vich, Malkin-vich The reason for all this is over a protest that arose when Military Recruiters tried to show up at a Job Fair at UC Santa Cruz. Lest anyone actually consider exercising their free
misc The State Department Not Feeling the Whole Brokeback Thing According to the State Department, one of the groups in question, the International Lesbian & Gay Association, was once associated with NAMBLA. Years ago. And expelled them. And haven't been associated with since.
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn in Iran; SFist Struggling To Care Look, you've probably noticed lots of other people talking about this, and look, it's not like we don't care about the Middle East or Iran or anything (hey, we read both Persepolises, we'll
