and there were other guard were tyrants at the same time. i feel we were able to give back to the guards. when we were freed there were probably three gallons of moonshine. that will not go well with the muslims. yeah, it s illegal. when we come back, how a mystery man got shane and josh released from prison. constipated? .yea dulcolax tablets can cause cramps but not phillips. it has magnesium and works more naturally than stimulant laxatives. for gentle cramp free relief of occasional constipation that works! mmm mmm live the regular life. why relocating manufacturingpany to upstate new york? i tell people it s for the climate. the conditions in new york state are great for business. new york is ranked #2 in the nation for new private sector job creation. and now it s even better because they ve introduced startup new york - dozens of tax-free zones
a. sarah shourd, shane bower and josh fattal were trick aid cross the boerpd and arrested in 2009, charged with espionage and thrown in to iran s most notorious prison. sarah wasn t released until september of 2010, but josh and shane spent another year behind bars. so ultimately the reports i read is the sultan of oman was your savior in this, paid a half million dollars for you, a million for you. why and how? why this guy? i think oman is the switzerland of the middle east. they play an intermediary role. it helped iran. it helped the u.s. which are both their allies. who do you remember about
he was saying you ll go to court, you ll be innocent, i know you re innocent and you ll go home. after three months he said i don t know if you re going to court, if you do, it may not be good, you may be here for a very long time. josh, everyone here was in solitary. one of the questions i have is, as sarah describes, the mind atrophies at a certain point. you know, practically what did you do to retain some sort of mental wherewithal to survive? i went through every year of my life, thinking about every memory i could come up with. i juggled oranges. i counted every mark on the wall, seeing if there was some logic to them. every prisoner seems to tally the wall. i average all of the different tallies, thinking that would determine when i was getting out. anything to keep my mind active but it didn t work. only way to get through is to just kind of wait it i mean there s not really a choice.
spies and held on espionage charges in the evin prison kept in solitary confinement, regularly blindfolded and went on hunger strike. the u.s. and iran had no diplomatic ties at the time. it became unclear when and if the three americans would be released and return home. on september 14th, 2010, after nearly 14 months in prison and over 400 days in solitary confinement, sarah shourd released on humanitarian grounds. one year later, after intense diplomatic efforts and international condemnation of the incarceration, shawn and josh were released from evin prison. in the new book, a sliver of light, sarah, shane, josh tell their story. joining me now, three hikers, sarah shourd, joshua fattal, shane bauer. happy to have you here. sarah, let me first start with
feelings was that i shane and josh were still in, nobody had understood what i had been through and i ex-about abou-abp connect. it was painful to connect with people. i had to fight for them. that was the only thing that made sense to me. but when i started to talk to other people, i realized that my symptoms, insomnia, hallucinations, you know, memory loss, not being able to concentrate, i would have a book and i would read the same paragraph over and over, not underend understanding anything, i d throw it at the wall. i began talking to other people who experienced it. now i work with solitary watch and collected over 75 testimonies, we ll publish them in into a book and weave them into a play. there s momentum around this issue. there s several states, reduced their population in solitary, they re realizizing it doesn t