5 things you can do to help free the hikers

Thanks so much for this, Julie. I’ve been following this and hoping that we will not just forget and move on. I am incredulous that they are still detained. Her mother’s video is so humble, respectful, and sincere — I hope it gets through in some way.

We can also write to the head of the Iranian Judiciary, our own government, even the hikers:

Free the Hikers
PO Box 10565
Duluth, MN 55815

I know the family also has “Free the Hikers” sweat shirts to raise awareness and funds for the cause.

Now let’s all make some videos — it’s an incredible idea!

thank you for keeping this at our attention. I am making my video response in the next 48 hours…

Hello,
Some time i think government don#t know or realise the pain of leaving or not hving you love ones and also i simply can’t think that what benifit or inforamtion Iranian govt. getting from her they simply want to give pain…..

It is noble what you’re doing for the hikers, but it is vain, the Iranians only keep them because the U.S kidnapped (or detained, depends what side your own) 4 Iranians in Iraq for up to 2 years, without access to lawyers, or family. So, you can expect the Iranians to hold these people for at least the same amount of time, without access to their families. It is a tit-for-tat situation, which the American authorities know, and understand very well. That’s why they don’t really say, or do anything on behalf the hikers, because they know it’s just a game with the Iranians.

Another option in prisoner exchange, but I doubt Washington considers these hikers important enough to do that.

So, it’s just a waiting game. Don’t worry about them TOO much, they are probably comfortable, and reading a lot, and learning Farsi. The Iranians are very hospitable, even to foreign prisoners.

Just because the Iranian people are hospitable does not mean its government officials and prisons are. I have family members and friends in Evin, and have read countless accounts of prisoners (now released) that tell of the torture, physical and psychological, and hell of solitary confinement that is something you cannot call “comfterable.” So before you blur the line between the Iranian’s hospitality and the regime’s tyranny in the same place, read the testimonies of Roxana Saberi, Maziar Bahari and Andreas Moser (all citizens of a country besides Iran).