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going on a hike in northern iraq. they were detained and accused of espionage. they were eventually released, sarah first in 2010 and josh and shane in 2011. the three have written a new book about their experience called a sliver of light: three americans imprisoned in iran. joining me now, shane, josh, and sarah. i welcome all three of you. i ll begin with you, shane. describe the conditions inside that prison. what was that like? do you think you might have been treated differently because you were american? thanks for having us. the prison we were in, we were in iran s central prison and we were held in a political ward where there were pro-democracy activists and other political prisoners held in isolation, many of them in solitary confinement. we sometimes heard people being beaten. people told us they were electrocuted or beaten on the bottom of their feet. but we quickly realized that we our interrogators told us
took sayid to a different prison. they didn t put him in a political ward. they put him in a ward where there s murderers and rapists on death row and they know there s a high violence rate there. so here they get a call and get demands from secretary of state and president obama and they do the exact opposite. they show, it s not a confidence building step. you know, our government needs t, you know, i expect them to speak out and say we asked for his release and this is horrible, what has happened. he s not going to survive even a few months in that prison. this is iran s continuous violation of human rights and here s an american citizen who is being held there because he s a christian and he needs to be released immediately. let me say what could have been done here. this is what has me troubled and i sent a letter to secretary of state kerry on friday. the fact of the matter is that