Middle East Public date: 24.08.2017 23:12:18

27 Dec 2011

Sarah Shourd, One of the Three American Hikers Freed from Prison in Iran, Sounds Off

I did not intentionally walk across an unmarked border into a country whose language I didn t speak and history I'd never studied. Nor did I choose the most interesting and volatile time in the Islamic Republic's 31-year history to be captured, imprisoned, and psychologically tortured by the government. But it happened. Like a lot of the world, I was just beginning to wake up and pay attention to Iran in the weeks leading up to my captivity. The post-election protests were all over the news, and I was intrigued by what felt like a new breed of a nonviolent mass movement, with powerful use of imagery, props, and tactics. Call it fate or call it coincidence, even though I never intended to go anywhere near Iran, I found myself thrown into a small cell in Evin prison, while the Green Movement was raging in the streets.
I did not intentionally walk across an unmarked border into a country whose language I didn t speak and history I'd...

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