Washington, Sept 26 (ANI): Two US hikers held by Iran for over two years on spying charges, described their stay in Tehran prison as 'the worst experience of their lives'.
Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal finally arrived in New York on Sunday, and insisted that they had been through hell.
"Solitary confinement was the worst experience of all of our lives. We lived in a world of lies and false hope," the New York Daily News quoted Fattal, as saying.
"We had to go on hunger strike repeatedly just to receive letters from our loved ones. Many times, too many times, we heard the screams of other prisoners being beaten, and there was nothing we could do to help them," he added.
Fattal and Bauer, both 29, rejected the Iranian claims that they were spying when they went hiking along the Iraqi Kurdish border with Iran.
They called on Iran to release all political prisoners.
"Josh and I have experienced a taste of the Iranian regime's brutality. We have been held in almost total isolation from the world and everything we love, stripped of our rights and freedom," Bauer said.
The hikers were freed last week after months of delicate diplomatic negotiations and a payment of a million dollar bail. (ANI)
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