Muhammad Ali calls for release of American hikers (12 images)

Boxing champion Muhammad Ali and other prominent Muslim leaders held a press conference to call on Iran to release American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. Bauer, Fattal and Bauer's fiancee, Sarah Shourd, were arrested July 31, 2009, while hiking along an unmarked border between Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan, and accused of espionage.

Boxing champion Muhammad Ali (C) is helped as he departs from a news conference with other prominent Muslim leaders to call on Iran to release American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal in Washington, DC on May 24, 2011. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg

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Boxing champion Muhammad Ali looks on as Sarah Shourd, former detainee, speaks during a news conference with other prominent Muslim leaders to call on Iran to release American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal in Washington, DC on May 24, 2011. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg

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Boxing champion Muhammad Ali and his wife Lonnie Ali (R) arrive for a news conference with other prominent Muslim leaders to call on Iran to release American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal in Washington, DC on May 24, 2011. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg

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Boxing champion Muhammad Ali attends a news conference with other prominent Muslim leaders to call on Iran to release American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal in Washington, DC on May 24, 2011. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg

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