Friend of American Hikers Detained in Iran Speaks Out

Monday, November 2, 2009 :Earlier this summer Shon Meckfessel traveled with Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Joshua Fattal from Damascus, Syria to Iraqi Kurdistan for a short vacation. Shon stayed behind at the hotel nursing a cold while his three friends left for the hike. On the morning of July 31st he set out to join them near a waterfall when Shane telephoned him to say they had been detained. The three American hikers are now in Evin prison in Iran. Shon Meckfessel, is sending a letter today to the Iranian President urging him to release his friends and to consider that each of them has a "long and public record of contesting injustice in the world."